If one examines the Nevada Secretary of State’s election returns for U.S. House for the November 2026 election, one comes across an unusual entry for the vote for Lincoln County, for the portion inside the Second U.S. House district. It says the returns for that tiny area are being withheld because to release the returns would violate secrecy for those voters. Nevada law permits this when there are ten or fewer voters inside an area.

When the legislature drew the U.S. House districts in 2021, it desired to make the districts exactly equal in population. That is why the legislature added a tiny chunk of Lincoln County to the Second District, to make the district equal in population to the other districts. This seems silly, because obviously the census figures are only accurate for the moment in time on which the census was taken. Furthermore the Census count is not absolutely perfect even on census day.