Nevada county's plan to hand-count ballots struck down

Officials in Nye County, Nevada, vowed to restructure their plan for hand-counting ballots after the state Supreme Courtroom struck it down on Thursday.

The court docket dominated that the unprecedented plan to start hand-counting all ballots violated the state's guidelines towards counties disclosing election outcomes early, saying the counting could resume as soon as polls have closed on Election Day.

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In response to the court docket order, Nye County Clerk Mark Kampf mentioned in a press release Friday that officers would proceed with their hand depend as soon as they modify the plan to the court docket and the Arizona secretary of state's liking.

"Yesterday’s Supreme Courtroom order requires us to make some adjustments to our hand depend course of. We is not going to conduct hand counting at the moment, however will resume as quickly as our plan is in compliance with the Courtroom’s order and authorised by the Secretary of State. There have been no hand counts at the moment, and none have been deliberate over for the weekend previous to the choice from the court docket and SOS," Kampf mentioned.

The county has not launched additional particulars into how officers plan to change their hand recount for the midterm elections in simply over every week.

The unique plan would have separated the ballots to be counted in 4 to 6 completely different rooms to keep away from anybody seeing the complete outcomes of the depend, with the hand depend operating along side the standard machine depend of the ballots.

Nevada has two "toss-up" races, per RealClearPolitics, with the gubernatorial and Senate races anticipated to be a few of the closest of this midterm cycle.