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Nov. 13, 2008
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County election results certified

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Results for the local general election and its record turnout were made official Wednesday.

After Clark County staff spent a week reviewing the votes, the commission certified the election results that will go to the secretary of state.


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    • Last week's election went smoothly, with 652,000 residents casting ballots. The turnout eclipsed the 547,000 people who voted in the 2004 presidential election, said Larry Lomax, the county registrar of voters.

    About 80 percent of registered voters participated in this year's general election, the same percentage as in 2004. The higher number of voters reflected a growth in population in the past four years.

    A total of 232 mistakes were found, nearly all of them clerical gaffes such as voters listed at the wrong precincts, he said.

    No votes were miscast, Lomax said.

    "The doomsayers were wrong as far as Clark County goes," he said.

    Election Day was less busy and chaotic at the polls, and less prone to errors thanks to 390,000 residents voting early, Lomax said.

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    BH wrote on November 13, 2008 11:43 AM: Well we will have to see if the Secretary of State does the same? As Mr. Lomax should be replaced for allowing nicknames to be placed incorrectly on the ballot and therefore, the election of those people should be invalidated based upon the Nevada Revised Statues.


    Nancy K wrote on November 13, 2008 07:06 AM: Right on Fred! Of course all the loons won't read this because it actually contains these troubling little things called FACTS. Carabou Barbie is good but too easy to confuse with Budweiser Barbie so I'm sticking to the Gleaner's name of Mooselini!


    Fair and Balanced Fred wrote on November 13, 2008 06:43 AM: Where are all the screwball right-wing haters whining about ACORN?

    ACORN was a distraction, like the entire McCain campaign, including Carabou Barbie.

    "No votes were miscast, Lomax said."