Republicans in Nevada have taken an early voting lead of more than 5 percentage points with just a week to go before the Nov. 5 contest, data show.
As of Tuesday afternoon, registered Republicans have a 5.4-percent advantage over registered Democrats in the early-voting total, according to figures posted by the University of Florida’s Election Lab.
Registered Republican voters have cast 283,337 ballots so far, taking a 38,330-vote lead over Democratic voters, who have cast 245,007 ballots so far, the data show. Unaffiliated voters, which make up about 25.3 percent of the current total, have cast 179,305 early votes.
While Democrats have a small lead in the mail-in ballot count, Republicans have a more than 75,000-vote lead for in-person early voting….