LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office is investigating 180 double-vote attempts from the 2024 general election, a report released Friday indicated.
The 180 double votes represent an attempt from a person to vote twice, whether intentional or not. Many double-vote attempts end up as voters who forgot they mailed in a ballot. A double vote can also occur if two people in the same household become confused about using one mail-in ballot, or if a voter accidentally voted in one state, moves and then votes in another, the department said.
Nevada’s election systems prevent a voter from casting a second vote since each voter is given a unique identifier and can only vote once.
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The office had closed two double vote investigations as of Friday. In all, the 182 double-vote cases represent 0.0001% of the nearly 1.5 million ballots cast in Nevada in November.
“Election security is a top priority for my office, and we’ve taken significant steps to ensure that Nevada’s elections are some of the safest in the country,” Nevada Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said in a news release. “The Secretary of State’s Office invested in enhanced cybersecurity, technology and investigative teams to ensure that our elections are protected and any issues that may come up can be addressed immediately. The 2024 election cycle was more secure than ever, and voters should be confident in the electoral process and their vote.”
The department referred eight double vote cases to the Attorney General’s Office for prosecution from the June primary.
A new voter registration and management system helped find real-time discrepancies in potential double votes, the department said.
More than 9,000 mail-in ballots across Nevada were not counted because voters did not verify their signatures before the curing deadline, according to data the 8 News Now Investigators reviewed.
There was no indication of widespread voter fraud in the 2020, 2022 or 2024 elections.
As the 8 News Now Investigators first reported, a Las Vegas man who voted twice in the 2020 election with his deceased wife’s ballot was able to withdraw his plea on a felony charge and instead pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor as part of a plea deal where he avoided jail time and had to pay a $2,000 fine.
