1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for any affected election, the county or city clerk, as applicable, shall prepare and distribute to each active registered voter in the county or city, as applicable, a sample ballot and a mail ballot for the election. The county or city clerk shall not distribute a mail ballot to any person who registers to vote for the election pursuant to the provisions of NRS 293.5772 to 293.5887, inclusive, but may distribute a sample ballot available at a polling place to such a person.
2. The mail ballot must include all offices, candidates and measures upon which the voter is entitled to vote at the election.
3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the mail ballot must be distributed to:
(a) Each active registered voter who:
(1) Resides within the State, not later than 20 days before the election; and
(2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), resides outside the State, not later than 40 days before the election.
(b) Each covered voter who is entitled to have a military-overseas ballot transmitted pursuant to the provisions of chapter 293D of NRS or the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U.S.C. §§ 20301 et seq., not later than the time required by those provisions.
4. In the case of a special election where no candidate for federal office will appear on the ballot, the mail ballot must be distributed to each active registered voter not later than 15 days before the special election.
5. Any untimely legal action which would prevent the mail ballot from being distributed to any voter pursuant to this section is moot and of no effect.
(Added to NRS by 2020, 32nd Special Session, 27)