Signed by Governor Steve Sisolak

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires the Secretary of State establish an electronic transmission system for disabled voters to register to vote.

Highlights:

• Requires the Secretary of State to allow an elector with a disability to use the system of approved electronic transmission to register to vote in every election where the system of approved electronic transmission is available to a covered voter to register to vote, including an affected election (Sec. 1-1.a).

• Requires the Secretary of State to ensure that an elector with a disability or a registered voter with a disability to provide his or her digital signature or electronic signature on any document or other material that is necessary for the elector or registered voter to register to vote, apply for an absentee ballot or cast an absentee ballot, as applicable (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires the Secretary of State to prescribe the duties of the county clerk upon receipt of an absentee ballot sent by a registered voter with a disability using the system of approved electronic transmission, including, the procedures to be used in accepting handling and counting the absentee ballot (Sec. 1-5).

• Requires the Secretary of State to prescribe with respect to the matter to be printed on every kind of ballot (Sec. 2-2):

• The placement and listing of all offices, candidates, and measures upon which voting is statewide, which must be uniform throughout the state; and

• The listing of all other candidates required to file with the Secretary of State, and the order of listing all offices, candidates, and measures upon which voting is not statewide, from which each county or city clerk to prepare appropriate ballot forms for use in any election in his or her county.

• Authorizes a registered voter with a disability to use the system for approved electronic transmission to request an absentee ballot (Sec. 3-2).

• Requires absentee ballots, including special absentee ballots, to be (Sec. 4-1):

• Delivered by hand to the county clerk before the time set foreclosing of the polls; or

• Mailed to the county clerk and:

• Postmarked on or before the day of election; and

• Received by the county clerk not later than 5 p.m. on the seventh day following the election.

• Requires the county clerk to prescribe procedures for an absent voter who failed to affix his or her signature or failed to affix it in the manner required by law for the absentee ballot, or for whom there is a reasonable question of fact as to whether the signature used for the absentee ballot matches the signature of the voter, in order to (Sec. 5-5):

• Contact the voter;

• Allow the voter to provide a signature or a confirmation that the signature used for the absentee ballot belongs to the voter, as applicable; and

• After a signature or a confirmation is provided, as applicable, ensure the absentee ballot is delivered to the appropriate election board or the absentee ballot central counting board, as applicable.

• Requires the local elections official to affix, mark, or otherwise acknowledge receipt of the application by means of a time stamp on the application upon receipt of the electronic equivalent of the federal postcard application (Sec. 13-1).

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