Overview
- State and county election officials opened expanded early voting this past Saturday, with Los Angeles County operating 122 vote centers and Nevada offering about 130 early sites plus roughly 160 drop boxes.
- Counties including Santa Clara, Marin and Ventura have phased openings that began this weekend and will add more vote centers before Election Day to provide in‑person voting, same‑day or conditional registration, language help, curbside service and accessible equipment.
- Officials are actively processing returned mail ballots and using signature 'curing' outreach when envelopes lack or mismatch signatures, with Clark County reporting hundreds flagged for verification and some voters already contacted to fix issues.
- Several Nevada counties rolled out a new print‑and‑sort step where voters review a printed ballot from a machine and then must insert it into a sorting tabulator for the vote to count, changing when ballots are finalized at the polling place.
- Election offices advise using tracked drop boxes or online ballot‑tracking tools and mailing ballots well before the deadline because California requires mail ballots to be postmarked by Election Day and arrive within seven days and Nevada requires postmark by Election Day with a short receipt window.