Reply #6: The Early and the New

[ignatzmouse]

I think the sudden rise in Republican registrations needs a thorough look over -- not just in Nevada but anywhere it mattered. Their efforts to discredit the big Democratic push signals that this is an area that consumed them. How could they make up so much ground so quickly after being totally outpaced by the Democrats for months? Their efforts to mail newly registered Democratic voters to get returned mail tells me that they had to have conceived of registration fraud in order to think about the mailings. I think it's a tip that off-the-charts late Republican registrations should be closely looked at in any swing state, and you won't find it by recounting.

But in Nevada, I would also look very closely at Washoe County. That low early vote turnout doesn't fit with anything in the rest of the state, and I think the idea may have been to suppress the early vote there because it likely wasn't as watched as Las Vegas -- especially in the early voting as opposed to election day. That alone could have swung the election.