Early voting (and vote by mail) now underway for Nevada’s June primary
May 26, 2026 | 9:00 am ET
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Early voting takes place at Galleria Mall Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Henderson. (Ronda Churchill/Nevada Current)
More than 52,600 people have already cast ballots in Nevada’s June primary election, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
Nevada’s Primary Election Day is June 9, with polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
But Saturday marked the beginning of the state’s in-person early voting period, which will run through June 5.
More than 11,600 ballots were cast at in-person early voting centers over Memorial Day Weekend, according to a new voter turnout dashboard run by the SOS. It appears only Clark and Washoe counties had vote centers open on Sunday and Monday, which was a federal holiday.
Those in-person early voters joined the more than 41,000 voters who have already voted by mail. Nevada provides universal mail ballots, meaning all active registered voters are sent a mail ballot unless they explicitly opt out. Counties have mailed ballots to 2 million statewide.
Both early voting and mail ballots have proven popular in the Silver State. The Nevada SOS office has said that 87% of active registered voters used a mail ballot at least once during either the 2022 or 2024 election cycles.
Prior to the adoption of universal mail ballots, more than half of voters took advantage of early voting.
Nevadans using vote by mail are encouraged to track their ballot. Doing so will alert voters to any potential issues with their ballot.
The majority of primary election mail ballots received so far by counties have been accepted, meaning there were no issues with them. A small percentage — 2%, or 855 returned ballots — have not been accepted. Typically this is because the voter forgot to sign the envelope containing the ballots, or their signature did not match.
Those ballots must be cured by the voter. Election officials will be reaching out to those voters.
The Nevada SOS office recommends that voters mail their ballot back no later than June 2 to ensure it arrives on time. The SOS recommends voting in-person or dropping your mail ballot off to a dropbox after that date.
VOTER RESOURCES
The Nevada SOS maintains an interactive map of every polling place in the state. The map also includes the locations of mail ballot drop boxes. (An additional map is available for tribal voters.)
Nevadans can update their voter registration online at any time at VOTE.NV.gov, or in-person at a polling place.
Nevada has closed primaries. Nonpartisan or minor party voters will receive ballots with nonpartisan races, such as those for school board and city council. Democrats and Republicans will have additional partisan primary races to weigh in on. If a voter wants to participate in the partisan primary, they can update their registration to do so.
Mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by the county no later than June 13 in order to be counted.
NVSOS Elections Division: (775) 687-VOTE (8683)
Additional information for voters is available on the NV SOS website.
Las Vegas, NV
