Nevada early voting update

From CNN:

Election officials in Nevada only report party registration for Clark and Washoe counties, where the major cities of Las Vegas and Reno are located. There, early voters have been trending heavily Democratic: 161,463 to 90,017.

The two counties account for about 90 percent of the state's population, and Democratic turnout is currently about 75 percent higher than turnout for Republicans, according to The Early Voting Center.

A CNN composite of several Nevada voter opinion polls released Tuesday showed Obama leading McCain by 7 percentage points -- 50 to 43 percent.

And from the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

An important part of the Obama campaign's outreach to Latinos is clarifying how voting works, she said: making sure they understand that filling out a registration form is not the same as casting a vote, that early votes count just like votes on Election Day, and that they cannot vote over the phone.

Deceptive phone calls targeting Hispanic Obama supporters in Nevada have tried to trick them into "voting" by phone and not going to the polls.

Early voting turnout continues to be high overall. Through the end of voting Monday, more than 334,000 voters had cast ballots statewide, including 242,000 in Clark County and 59,000 in Washoe County. Statewide turnout is up to 29 percent, according to the secretary of state's office.

In the urban counties, Democrats continue to turn out at higher rates than Republicans. In Clark County, 54 percent of those who voted through Monday were Democrats, 29 percent Republicans. In Washoe County, 51 percent of voters through Monday were Democrats, while 33 percent were Republicans.

Partisan statistics were not available for the 15 rural counties, home to less than 15 percent of the electorate, which tend to be heavily Republican.

HOWEVER: In Nevada, Latino and young voters are not voting early in unusually high numbers... so we've still got some work to do!

VOTE!