2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 24 ELECTIONS
Chapter 293 Elections
NRS 293.3155 Use of special absent ballot by Armed Forces personnel and overseas citizens.

NRS 293.3155 Use of special absent ballot by Armed Forces personnel and overseas citizens. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title:

1. Any registered voter of this State who is Armed Forces personnel or an overseas citizen may use a special absent ballot for a primary, general or special election.

2. The special absent ballot may be used for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States, United States Senator and Representative in Congress, and for any state or local offices and ballot questions for which the registered voter is entitled to cast a ballot. The ballot must allow the registered voter to vote by writing in his or her choice of a political party for each office or the name of a candidate whose name appears on the ballot for each office.

3. The special absent ballot may be voted by completing the ballot according to the instructions and returning it to the county clerk by:

(a) Mail, if it can be returned in a timely manner; or

(b) Approved electronic transmission.

4. The special absent ballot must not be counted if:

(a) It is submitted from any location within the continental United States by an overseas citizen; or

(b) The county clerk receives the regular absent ballot from the voter on or before the date of the primary, general or special election.

5. As used in this section, "regular absent ballot" means the absent ballot prepared by the county clerk pursuant to NRS 293.309.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 2048; A 1989, 1729, 2166; 1993, 2185; 2009, 355)