Unlike fellow presidential battleground states Georgia and North Carolina this year, Nevada did not smash a first day record for in person early voting Saturday. But then, unlike Georgia and North Carolina,

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“You have to drive all your friends out,” Michael McDonald, the chair of the Nevada Republican Party, said at a rally to promote early voting, where about 50 people joined the state’s Republican nominee for Senate, Sam Brown, and other politicians. “Act like they owe you money. Get them out to vote.”

Each of the 10 people The Nevada Independent interviewed expressed that this was the most important election of their lifetimes.

Saturday is the start of in-person early voting in Nevada. If you've received a mail-in ballot, it’s OK to have mailed it in before then. But Saturday is when vote centers open where you can cast your ballot on a machine in person. You can also hand-deliver your mail-in ballot if you don’t feel comfortable entrusting it to the U.S. Postal Service.

Unlike other presidential battleground states Georgia and North Carolina, Nevada did not smash a first-day record for in-person early voting.

Lines were winding and parking lots overflowing Saturday as Las Vegas voters proudly cast their ballots on the first day of Nevada’s general election. After months of campaigning and a barrage of political advertisements,