1. Any registered voter who is unable to go to the polls:
(a) Because of an illness or disability resulting in confinement in a hospital, sanatorium, dwelling or nursing home; or
(b) Because the registered voter is suddenly hospitalized, becomes seriously ill or is called away from home after the time has elapsed for requesting an absent ballot for the election pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 293.313,
may submit a written request to the county clerk for an absent ballot. The request must be submitted before 5 p.m. on the day of the election.
2. If the county clerk determines that a request submitted pursuant to subsection 1 includes the information required pursuant to subsection 3, the county clerk shall, at the office of the county clerk, deliver an absent ballot to the person designated in the request to obtain the absent ballot for the registered voter.
3. A written request submitted pursuant to subsection 1 must include:
(a) The name, address and signature of the registered voter requesting the absent ballot;
(b) The name, address and signature of the person designated by the registered voter to obtain, deliver and return the absent ballot for the registered voter;
(c) A brief statement of the illness or disability of the registered voter or of facts sufficient to establish that the registered voter was called away from home after the time had elapsed for requesting the absent ballot;
(d) If the voter is confined in a hospital, sanatorium, dwelling or nursing home, a statement that he or she will be confined therein on the day of the election; and
(e) Unless the person designated pursuant to paragraph (b) will mark and sign the absent ballot on behalf of the registered voter pursuant to subsection 5, a statement signed under penalty of perjury that only the registered voter will mark and sign the absent ballot.
4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, in order to vote the absent ballot, the registered voter must, in accordance with the instructions:
(a) Mark and fold the absent ballot;
(b) Deposit the absent ballot in the return envelope and seal the return envelope;
(c) Affix his or her signature on the return envelope in the space provided for the signature; and
(d) Mail or deliver the return envelope in a manner authorized by law.
5. A person designated in a request submitted pursuant to subsection 1 may, on behalf of and at the direction of the registered voter, mark and sign the absent ballot. If the person marks and signs the absent ballot pursuant to this section, the person must:
(a) Indicate next to his or her signature that the absent ballot has been marked and signed on behalf of the registered voter; and
(b) Submit a written statement with the absent ballot that includes the name, address and signature of the person.
6. An absent ballot prepared by or on behalf of the registered voter pursuant to this section must be mailed or delivered to the county clerk in accordance with NRS 293.317.
7. The procedure authorized by this section is subject to all other provisions of this chapter relating to voting by absent ballot to the extent that those provisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 852; A 1969, 455; 1971, 444; 1985, 1093; 1987, 342; 1991, 2221; 1997, 3456; 1999, 2156; 2017, 1360; 2020, 32nd Special Session, 36)