§ NRS § 293C.530Sample ballots: Distribution; exceptions; inclusion of certain matters; required notices; form and type size; cost of distributing responsibility of city for city elections

Sample ballots: Distribution; exceptions; inclusion of certain
matters; required notices; form and type size; cost of distributing
responsibility of city for city elections.

1.  A city clerk may establish a system for
distributing sample ballots by electronic means to each registered voter who
elects to receive a sample ballot by electronic means. Such a system may
include, without limitation, electronic mail or electronic access through an
Internet website. If a city clerk establishes such a system and a registered
voter elects to receive a sample ballot by electronic means, the city clerk
shall distribute the sample ballot to the registered voter by electronic means
pursuant to the procedures and requirements set forth by regulations adopted by
the Secretary of State.

2.  If a registered voter does not elect to
receive a sample ballot by electronic means pursuant to subsection 1, the city
clerk shall distribute the sample ballot to the registered voter by mail. 

3.  Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 4, before the applicable deadline for distributing a mail ballot to
a registered voter established by NRS
293C.263, the city clerk shall distribute to each registered voter in the
city by mail or electronic means, as applicable, the sample ballot for his or
her precinct, with a notice informing the voter of the location of his or her
polling place or places. If the location of the polling place or places has
changed since the last election:

(a) The city clerk shall mail a notice of the
change to each registered voter in the city not sooner than 10 days before
distributing the sample ballots; or

(b) The sample ballot must also include a notice
in bold type immediately above the location which states:



NOTICE: THE LOCATION
OF YOUR POLLING PLACE OR

PLACES HAS CHANGED
SINCE THE LAST ELECTION



4.  If a person registers to vote less than
20 days before the date of an election, the city clerk is not required to
distribute to the person the sample ballot for that election by mail or
electronic means.

5.  Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 7, a sample ballot required to be distributed pursuant to this
section must:

(a) Be prepared in at least 12-point type;

(b) Include the description of the anticipated
financial effect and explanation of each citywide measure and advisory
question, including arguments for and against the measure or question, as
required pursuant to NRS 295.205 or 295.217; and

(c) Include on the front page, in a separate box
created by bold lines, a notice prepared in at least 20-point bold type that
states:



NOTICE: TO RECEIVE A
SAMPLE BALLOT IN

LARGE TYPE, CALL
(Insert appropriate telephone number)



6.  The word “Incumbent” must appear on the
sample ballot next to the name of the candidate who is the incumbent, if
required pursuant to NRS 293.2565. 

7.  A portion of a sample ballot that
contains a facsimile of the display area of a voting device may include
material in less than 12-point type to the extent necessary to make the
facsimile fit on the pages of the sample ballot.

8.  The sample ballot distributed to a
person who requests a sample ballot in large type by exercising the option
provided pursuant to NRS 293.508, or in
any other manner, must be prepared in at least 14-point type, or larger when
practicable.

9.  If a person requests a sample ballot in
large type, the city clerk shall ensure that all future sample ballots
distributed to that person from the city are in large type.

10.  The city clerk shall include in each
sample ballot a statement indicating that the city clerk will, upon request of
a voter who is elderly or disabled, make reasonable accommodations to allow the
voter to vote at his or her polling place or places and provide reasonable assistance
to the voter in casting his or her vote, including, without limitation,
providing appropriate materials to assist the voter. In addition, if the city
clerk has provided pursuant to subsection 4 of NRS 293C.281 for the placement at
centralized voting locations of specially equipped voting devices for use by
voters who are elderly or disabled, the city clerk shall include in the sample
ballot a statement indicating:

(a) The addresses of such centralized voting
locations;

(b) The types of specially equipped voting
devices available at such centralized voting locations; and

(c) That a voter who is elderly or disabled may
cast his or her ballot at such a centralized voting location rather than at the
voter’s regularly designated polling place or places.

11.  The cost of distributing sample
ballots for a city election must be borne by the city holding the election.