Date

The 2012 Nevada Republican caucuses were originally scheduled to begin on February 18, 2012,^[8] much later than the date in 2008, which almost immediately followed the beginning of the year in January 2008.^[9] On September 29, 2011, the entire schedule of caucuses and primaries was disrupted, however, when it was announced that the Republican Party of Florida had decided to move up its primary to January 31, in an attempt to bring attention to its own primary contest, and attract the presidential candidates to visit the state.^[10] Because of the move, the Republican National Committee decided to strip Florida of half of its delegates.^[11] Also as a result, the Nevada Republican Party, along with Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, then sought to move their caucuses back into early January.^[11] All but Nevada, who agreed to follow Florida,^[12] confirmed their caucus and primary dates to take place throughout January, with Nevada deciding to hold their contest on February 4, 2012.^[13]

The caucuses for 1,835 precincts in 125 sites were scheduled: voting from 9 AM - 1 PM, ballots handling 9-10 AM and to conclude by 3 PM at the latest on February 4, with results for almost all counties to be announced by the party at 5 PM.

Clark County

For Clark County, a special caucus was held at the Adelson Educational Campus at 7 PM, intended to accommodate those who observe Saturday Sabbath.^[14] According to Philip Kantor, an Orthodox Jew, the goal of the after-work caucus was to prevent electoral fraud "It has everything to do with not being deprived of a vote, being disenfranchised".^[15] This late caucus allowed a timely vote for Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews and other who don't vote until Sabbath is over.^[16] Adelson campus caucus attendees were required to sign affidavits stating that they had not already cast their ballot in an earlier caucus, that day.^[14] There was only one nationwide televised (by CNN) public vote-count.^{[citation needed]} That Adelson caucus count provided the following Candidate vote results: Ron Paul 181, Mitt Romney 61, Newt Gingrich 57, and Rick Santorum 16 votes.^{[citation needed]} The results of this special caucus were announced Feb 4 near 11 PM.^{[citation needed]} Paul got second place in Clark County, but Gingrich was ahead of Paul by a larger margin in the rest of the state and therefore ended up beating Paul statewide for second place.^{[citation needed]}

Polling

Results

Turnout was 8.23%. 1,800 of 1,800 precincts (100%) reporting.^[17]
The voting-eligible population (400,310 registered Nevada Republicans).^[6]
125 caucus sites.

Delegates were awarded to candidates who got 3.57% or more of the vote proportionally

This final result was announced by Twitter and the Nevada Republican Party on Monday February 6, at 01:01 am PST (local time).^[24] The actual Republican National Convention delegates from Nevada are mostly Ron Paul supporters (22 of 28), which were elected by state convention on May 6. The Nevada Republican Party's rules state that most elected delegates to the RNC are still bound to vote for Romney (in the first round of voting), because of Romney's statewide caucuses winning.

Controversy

Allegations of voter fraud have arisen due to a recount of Clark County ballots despite there being no official contest from any of the campaigns. One reason given by the GOP was that there were more ballots cast than people "signed in" at some precincts.^[31]

Counties and independent cities that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Carson City