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NRS 293.269973

Responsibilities of jails

(Added to NRS by 2023, 2906)

1. Each county or city jail shall:

(a) Provide each person detained in the jail with a reasonable amount of privacy to vote, which may, without limitation, be in a common area, visitation area, room or cell;

(b) Provide each person detained in the jail with a pen with black or blue ink to vote his or her mail ballot;

(c) Allow the county clerk to establish a process for the collection of the mail ballots voted by persons detained in the jail that includes a method for documenting the chain of custody of mail ballots; and

(d) If applicable, allow the person to cure any defect in the signature on a mail ballot pursuant to NRS 293.269927.

2. A county or city jail shall not open a mail ballot after a prisoner has voted and sealed the mail ballot.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.