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There's a 7.8% chance you're not considered an "active" voter in Nevada, according to the Secretary of State's office, which means you might not receive a sample ballot or mail-in/absentee ballot this fall. Notices have been mailed out to 156,996 voters -- or about 7.8% of the state's overall voter rolls -- to confirm that they're still at that address. Just to put that into perspective, the presidential race in Nevada was decided by less than 34,000 votes.

Anyway, you could respond to the notice, or you could just wait until Election Day to do same-day voter registration, which is probably as smooth of a process as gift shopping on Christmas Day. The Nevada Current's April Corbin Girnus has the details, plus how to check your own registration status online .

Ew, gross

Are local restaurants getting cleaner, or did the July 4 holiday put a damper on health inspections? Either way, there were far fewer dining establishments in violation of health codes during the first part of July, and only three outright failures. The most egregious violation? Probably the 85-day-old sausages found in one restaurant's reach-in cooler. We'd say "whatever you do, don't order the sausage" but apparently nobody ordered sausage there anyway for the past several months. Check out the rundown here .

Ew, gross, part 2

The fight to preserve Lake Tahoe's clarity just reached the Boss Level. A contractor installing a lighted crosswalk nicked a main sewer line, which led to 85,000 gallons being released into the lake. That's right, one five-millionth of Lake Tahoe is now untreated sewage. Tahoe Tessie is slightly miffed. Jaedyn Young has the story .

The rundown

• Reno-Sparks kids evacuated from Sierra Nevada Journeys camp as fires burn near Portola
• Sparks rejects $1.2 million settlement offer from woman knocked down by firefighter
• Robert Beadles owes Washoe County $100,000 over election lawsuit, but he says he may appeal his case to the US Supreme Court
• With 5 months left in Trustee Jeff Church's term, tensions persist between him and School Board President Beth Smith
• Nevada's Democratic delegates back Harris as she reaches enough endorsements to be the presidential nominee
• Reno High's Kathy Weston looks back on her 1976 Olympics appearance -- and the 1980 boycott
• Northern Nevada athletes competing at Paris Olympics. Here's how to watch
• Tofu House, closed during pandemic, reborn in south Reno
• Reno teen wins Youth Triathlon Nationals for 375-meter swim, 10-kilometer bike ride and 2.5 kilometer run, all in the same week . Sounds exhausting! Wait, sorry, apparently he did all three of those things consecutively
• The five most expensive Lake Tahoe homes that sold so far this year. At the other end of the scale, here's a $24,000 mobile home in SLT
• Where are you setting your thermostat this summer? Area dads want to know

Who's winning the internet?

The Scale of Life , calculating real-time statistics on marriages, seafood consumption, cans of Spam produced and a few dozen other categories. You guys are shedding far too many skin cells; knock it off.

Brett McGinness is the engagement editor for the Reno Gazette Journal. He's also the writer of The Reno Memo — a free newsletter about news in the Biggest Little City. Subscribe to the newsletter right here . Consider supporting the Reno Gazette Journal , too.

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