VOTERS ARE N0T REQUIRED TO PRESENT ID AT POLLS

people to vote.

Registered voters can cast their vote at any of the 172 Clark County polling centers.

Bunkerville, Indian Springs, Laughlin, Mesquite, Moapa, Moapa Valley, Sandy Valley and Searchlight will also have a voting center on Election Day. County residents can also search for the closest voting poll to their homes at clarkcountynv.gov/ vote.

Voters need only to provide their signature. A state-issued ID is not required, but it is recommended, says Joe Gloria, registrar of voting. Voters aren’t allowed to wear buttons and/ or hats endorsing candidates, as such paraphernalia is seen as electioneering. Gloria said voting poll staffers will ask voters wearing certain propaganda to remove it, but they’ll “never ask anyone to take their shirt or pants off.”

Weapons, such as firearms, are permitted where not banned by law, but several voting polls are located inside schools where federal law prohibits guns.

3. An instantaneous recording of a person’s vote — both digitally and on paper

All results are recorded immediately on the voting machine and backed up with a printed piece of paper, county spokesman Dan Kulin said. The materials and records of votes cast are all transported to the Clark County Election Department’s downtown office and tallied at the end of the day. The “standalone” voting booths in Clark County are not connected to the internet, Kulin said. Percentage and population of particular languages spoken within the Las Vegas metropolitan area, other than English:

• 23 percent Spanish: 400,000-600,000 people • 3.5 percent Tagalog: 60,000-74,000 people

• 1.2 percent Mandarin Chinese: 24,000-29,000 people

Early and absentee voting

It’s too late for today’s primary election, but Nevadans wishing to stay at home or who are traveling out of town during the November election will be able to participate in early and absentee voting. Early voting, which briefly opens some polling sites during the weeks before Election Day, will take place Oct. 20 through Nov. 2 for the general election at polling locations throughout Clark County.

• Absentee ballots for the November general election can be requested from the Clark County Registrar of Voters, PO Box 3909, Las Vegas NV 89127, or at 702-455-8683 (VOTE), and must be received by the county’s registrar’s office no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Languages and ballots

Besides English, ballots in Clark County are also offered in Spanish (since July 2002) and Tagalog (since October 2011). Federal law requires ballots to be Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said that since 2000, more county residents have chosen to vote before Election Day than on the day itself, in part to avoid long lines.

• Midterm primaries: 51 percent early voters; 37 percent Election Day voters; 12 percent absentee

• General election: 50 percent early voters; 44 percent Election Day voters; 6 percent absentee

printed in any language spoken at home by at least 5 percent of a county’s residents or more than 10,000 people of voting age. Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said despite the growing number of native Mandarin Chinese speakers — which U.S. Census Bureau and online estimates put between 24,000 to 29,000 total residents in the valley — county officials have not received any new mandates to add that language to the ballot. All counties in Nevada offer ballots in both English and Spanish, but Kulin said only Clark County also includes ballots in Tagalog. An additional mandate for Mandarin in Clark County may come as soon as the 2020 Census statistics are released, he said.