Assembly Bill No. 4 (A.B. 4) of the 32nd Special Legislative Session: (1) enacted various procedures for conducting certain elections affected by a disaster or emergency, including, requiring that mail ballots be sent to all active registered voters; (2) revised certain provisions relating to voting by absent ballot or mailing ballot; and (3) revised certain procedures for verifying and counting absent ballots and mailing ballots. (Chapter 3, Statutes of Nevada 2020, 32nd Special Session, at page 18) This bill repeals these provisions and reinstates the procedures and provisions for elections that existed before the passage of A.B. 4. Under existing law, there are certain election procedures for state, county and city elections relating to absent ballots distributed to absent voters who do not vote at polling places. (NRS 293.3088-293.340, 293C.304-293C.340) Existing law also provides that election procedures for absent ballots generally apply to mailing ballots distributed to voters who reside in mailing precincts and absent ballot mailing precincts. (NRS 293.343-293.355, 293C.342-293C.352) Sections 2-20, 23-36, 38-40 and 43-45 of this bill revise these procedures to reinstate the procedures for absent ballots and mailing ballots that existed before the passage of A.B. 4 including: (1) making it unlawful, with limited exception, for a person to assist a registered voter in marking and signing an absent ballot or mailing ballot or for a person to mark or return an absent ballot or mailing ballot on behalf of a voter; (2) eliminating certain standards for verifying a voter's signature on an absent ballot or mailing ballot; and (3) revising the date on which elections officials may begin to count absent ballots and mailing ballots. Section 46 of this bill repeals the provisions for conducting certain elections affected by a disaster or emergency. Sections 1, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20-22, 26, 31, 33, 37, 38, 41, 42 and 45 of this bill make conforming changes related to the repeal of these provisions.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 293.272, 293.309, 293.310, 293.313, 293.316, 293.3165, 293.317, 293.323, 293.325, 293.330, 293.333, 293.343, 293.345, 293.353, 293.355, 293.363, 293.365, 293.384, 293.385, 293.387, 293.393, 293.5837, 293.730, 293B.370, 293C.110, 293C.265, 293C.305, 293C.307, 293C.310, 293C.317, 293C.318, 293C.319, 293C.322, 293C.325, 293C.330, 293C.332, 293C.342, 293C.345, 293C.350, 293C.352, 293C.362, 293C.365, 293C.382, 293C.385, 293C.387