Early in-person voting for Nevada’s June 9 primary begins May 23, with 1.3 million of the battleground state’s 2.45 million registered voters eligible to cast ballots in selecting Democratic and Republican candidates for the Nov. 3 general election.
But the bottom line is the 965,000 Nevadans registered on May 1 as independents–who cannot vote in the state’s closed party primaries–will ultimately decide the winning candidates in the fall.
Nevada’s elections dynamic has changed significantly since 2020, with the reliably blue state now competitively purple and dominated by nonpartisan voters, the state’s majority electorate since mid-2023, in line with a national trend in swelling independent, nonpartisan, and third-party enrollments….