2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 293 - Elections
NRS 293.8884 - Process for counting mail ballots; requirements relating to empty envelopes and rejected mail ballots. [Effective through December 31, 2021.]
Except as otherwise provided in NRS 293D.200, for any affected election, each mail ballot central counting board shall process the mail ballots in the following manner:
1. The name of the voter, as shown on the return envelope, must be checked as if the voter were voting in person;
2. If the board determines that the voter is entitled to cast a mail ballot, the return envelope must be opened, the numbers on the mail ballot and return envelope compared, the number strip or stub detached from the mail ballot and, if the numbers are the same, the mail ballot must be counted;
3. An election board officer shall indicate in the roster "Voted" by the name of the voter; and
4. When all mail ballots delivered to the board have been voted or rejected, except as otherwise provided in NRS 293D.200, the empty envelopes and the envelopes containing rejected mail ballots must be returned to the clerk. On all envelopes containing rejected mail ballots, the cause of rejection must be noted and the envelope signed by an election board officer.
(Added to NRS by 2020, 32nd Special Session, 33; R 2021, 1266, effective January 1, 2022)
