Absent ballots: Preparation; reasonable accommodations for use by persons who are elderly or disabled; time for distribution; mootness of untimely legal actions which would prevent distribution.

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1. The city clerk shall prepare an absent ballot for the use of registered voters who have requested absent ballots. The city clerk shall make reasonable accommodations for the use of the absent ballot by a person who is elderly or disabled, including, without limitation, by providing, upon request, the absent ballot in 12-point type to a person who is elderly or disabled.

2. The ballot must be prepared and ready for distribution to:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), each registered voter who resides within or outside this State, not later than 20 days before the election in which it will be used.

(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.

3. Any untimely legal action that would prevent the ballot from being distributed to any voter pursuant to subsection 2 is moot and of no effect.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 3430; A 1999, 2165; 2001, 1437; 2011, 3072; 2017, 3339; 2020, 32nd Special Session, 52)


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