California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the diverging outcomes.
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
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 Democrats still hold the power in the state Legislature but have fallen short of winning a two-thirds supermajority in both houses that would have stripped Republican Gov.
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.
LAS VEGAS -- Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen has won reelection, beating Republican Sam Brown in a tight but unusually quiet race for the battleground state.
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.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in Nevada was the first for Republicans in a presidential election since 2004.