A student rushes across the UNLV campus just before lunch with a mail-in ballot in hand, darting past the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and into the polling site at Lied Library.

The line stretches out the door, but the student patiently waits and does their civic duty by voting. The student was one of 1,068,977 Nevadans — 52.5% of active voters — who have already cast a ballot in today’s presidential election.