California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the diverging outcomes.

Election certification meetings on Friday in Nevada's two most populous counties were roiled by voting conspiracies while local officials in the state's rural counties quietly approved election results that favored President-elect Donald Trump.

The freshman senator attributes her success to localizing the Senate race, emphasizing her Nevada roots and commitment to bipartisanship and painting Brown as too extreme for the state. This allowed her to win even in a national environment that favored Republicans and keep enough registered nonpartisan and soft Republican Trump voters from picking Brown as well.

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Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said it was "very disappointing that more than 9,000 Nevadans did not have their votes count this election."

More than 9,000 ballots submitted in Nevada's general election were ultimately not counted because of signature verification issues.The Nevada Secretary of Stat

Donald Trump won Nevada with a majority of the vote and a 3.4-point lead over Kamala Harris. Jacky Rosen was also declared the winner over Sam Brown.

Rosen won a close race against Republican Sam Brown as President-elect Donald Trump flipped the state red for the first time in 20 years.

Trump will pick up Nevada's six electoral votes, CBS News projects, capturing a state that has voted Democratic for the past four presidential elections. CBS News estimates the presidential race in Nevada leans Trump, with about 95% of the vote in as of Thursday afternoon.

President-elect Donald Trump has won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election, beating Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada.

The Republican president-elect has won 312 Electoral College votes, compared with 226 for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Republicans have not won a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada in a dozen years, and Rosen, the incumbent, had been ahead in the polls leading up to the election.