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,

“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.”

Nevada is one of several swing states this election whose votes in the electoral college are likely to decide who the next president will be. But while many voters feel