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The job of explaining these duties to the board fell to Nathan Edwards, a lawyer from the Washoe DA’s office. “You are canvassing the vote today,” he began, using the formal term for reviewing the #election process. But then he began to interpret the #statutory language in way that surprised Andriola. “There’s been a lot of talk about whether this is ‘ministerial’ or ‘not ministerial,’” he said. But the state #law contained elements of both: