Supporters of opposing school board candidates at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center as the sun goes down on Election Day.
School board candidates Erinn Miller and Melinda Gneiting were leading in preliminary results released around 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Miller was ahead of incumbent school board trustee Doug Englekirk with 60.79 percent of the vote while Gneiting was ahead of Antoinette Casselberry with 58.25 percent of the vote.
The first results only accounted for 54.89 percent of the total number of active voters.
In other races, Laurie Trotter was ahead of Jeff Schemenauer for East Fork Justice of the Peace. Sitting Tahoe Township Justice Michael Johnson is ahead of challenger Richard Gardner.
In national races, Douglas went for Donald Trump for President and Sam Brown for U.S. senator. Rep. Mark Amodei and Assemblyman Ken Gray were also ahead in preliminary results.
Douglas results so far:
President 10 p.m. 11 p.m.
Donald Trump 18,015 20,808
Kamala Harris 8,737 9,854
U.S. Senate
Sam Brown 17,289 19,876
Jacky Rosen 8,897 9,993
U.S. Representative
Mark Amodei 17,293 19,857
Greg Kidd 7,800 8,716
Assembly District 39
Ken Gray 18,445 21,236
Erich Obermayr 7,570 8512
Douglas County Commissioner
Danny Tarkanian 16,894 19,364
Jason Gibson 5,612 6,310
Brian Dempsey 3,692 4,316
State Board of Education
Angela Orr 11,070 12,453
Paul Davis 9,346 11,021
Douglas School Board District 3
Erinn Miller 14,170 16060
Doug Englekirk 8,977 10358
Douglas School Board District 5
Melinda Gneiting 13,576 15,352
Antoinette Casselberry 9,549 11,002
Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection
John Breaux 1,325
Benjamin Ward 1,203
Dan Kruger 1,095
Robert Desipio Jr. 725
East Fork Swimming Pool District
Teresa Duffy 12,992 14,607
Allen Biaggi 10,621 11,847
Sharon Des Jardins 9,227 10,252
Barbara Kuehner 5,830 6,611
Alan Ferguson 4,417 5237
Gardnerville Ranchos
David Nelson 2,263 2,580
James Degraffenreid 1,949 2,210
Haley Mosegard 1,313 1,493
Deni Caster 1,150 1,315
Indian Hills General Improvement District
Russ Siegman 976 1,140
Kathryn Ross 829 1,018
Nancy Jones 594 737
Topaz Ranch Estates
Sharon Becker 325 412
Jeffrey Burgess 282 366
Wynona Gonzalez 237 303
Alton Randall 193 265
Minden
Mimi Moss 1,270 1,380
Steven Thaler 982 1,055
Robbe Lehmann 748 854
East Fork Justice of the Peace
Laurie Trotter 12,930 14,293
Jeff Schemenauer 7,879 9,226
Tahoe Township Justice of the Peace
Michael Johnson 1,362 1,669
Richard Gardner 880 1,108
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The polls are closed in Douglas County, but results from today's election won't be released until the last voter has cast a ballot in the state.
The Las Vegas Review Journal reported a three-hour wait in Nye County, while reports are that Las Vegas and Reno have 2.5 hour waits.
Once the Secretary of State’s Office receives confirmation from all 17 counties that all polls in Nevada are closed and the last voter has voted, the first unofficial results will be posted online at Results.NV.gov.
An election worker nudged the ballot box out front of the Community & Senior Center with his foot and said “This is full.”
Meanwhile voters were lined up in the lobby around 6:15 p.m. as the 2024 General Election entered its final minutes.
Election results won’t be released until the last Nevadan in line has had a chance to vote. That Nevadan probably is going to be in Clark or Washoe counties where there were tens of thousands of people who hadn’t yet cast a ballot yet on Tuesday morning.
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Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans guessed the first results could come out around 8 p.m. with a second bunch coming out at 10 p.m.
That second bunch may include some of the mailed ballots that were dropped off on Tuesday.
While there were campaigners at the entrance of the community center at 5 p.m., they’d given up by 6 p.m. after it got too dark to see.
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With four hours before the polls close, Douglas County Clerk Treasurer Amy Burgans said there has been a steady flow of voters casting their ballots.
“It’s busy, but not outrageous lines,” she said in a text to The R-C.
Two thirds of Douglas County’s active voters cast a ballot before Election Day.
Election workers said there wasn’t much of a line at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center when the polls opened.
No voters were lined up outside of the center in Gardnerville either first thing or after lunch.
There will likely be an increase in the number of voters turning up for the last two hours after they get off work.
Polls close at 7 p.m. Those planning on using their mailed ballots may drop them off at any of a half-dozen locations across the county or send them in the mail.
Polls are open at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center, Kahle Community Center, the TRE Community Center, the Dresslerville Community Center and the Indian Hills General Improvement District office.
Any voter may cast a ballot in person at any polling place.
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Preliminary results from the 2024 General Election may be available shortly after the last voter in line has cast a ballot today.
In a call on Friday, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said he was optimistic that once the polls closed on Tuesday, results would be out shortly thereafter.
Election workers have been allowed to process ballots since they started arriving in mid-October. Under state law, counting mailed ballots could begin on Oct. 21, 15 days before Election Day.
Results will be reported at www.recordcourier.com as they become available and will appear in Saturday’s edition.
As of Election Day eve, Douglas County had the highest turnout in the state, with 67 percent of its 42,169 registered voters casting a ballot. Those included 19,662 mailed ballots and 8,586 who voted early in person, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s website.
That leaves 13,921 active voters to cast a ballot between today.
Voters have until Nov. 12 to cure their ballots, one more day due to Veteran’s Day, Aguilar said on Friday.
“Counties have six days after Election Day to cure a voter’s ballot — if the ballot doesn’t get cured within the six-day timeline, it won’t get counted.”
Douglas County commissioners are scheduled to canvass the vote on Nov. 15, Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans said on Monday.
