Were more than 92,000 Clark County mail ballots returned as undeliverable during the 2020 election?
By Todd Butterworth
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Due to the pandemic, Nevada required all active registered voters to be mailed a general election ballot in 2020. In previous elections, mail-in ballots were only sent when requested. According to the Clark County registrar of voters, the post office returned 92,367 mail-in ballots during the 2020 general election; this was 7.2% of all ballots mailed in the county. Because this was a first-time event, no historical comparison is possible for this ballot return rate.
The early months of the pandemic saw a national spike in temporary address changes, and permanent changes were higher in 2020 than in 2019 or 2021. These factors may have contributed to the 7.2% ballot return rate.
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