NRS 293.510 - Applications: County clerk required to arrange and segregate applications in certain manner; applications constitute registrar of voters’ register and must be used to prepare rosters. [Effective through December 31, 2019.] [Provisions of this section were amended by an initiative petition approved by the voters at the 2018 General Election, and therefore those provisions may not be subject to legislative amendment or repeal until after November 27, 2021.]

NV Rev Stat § 293.510 (2019) (N/A)

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1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, in counties where computers are not used to register voters, the county clerk shall:

(a) Segregate original applications to register to vote according to the precinct in which the registered voters reside and arrange the applications in each precinct or district in alphabetical order. The applications for each precinct or district must be kept separately for each precinct or district. These applications must be used to prepare the rosters.

(b) Arrange the duplicate applications of registration in alphabetical order for the entire county and keep them in binders or a suitable file which constitutes the registrar of voters’ register.

2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, in any county where a computer is used to register voters, the county clerk shall:

(a) Arrange the original applications to register to vote for the entire county in a manner in which an original application may be quickly located. These original applications constitute the registrar of voters’ register.

(b) Segregate the applications to register to vote in a computer file according to the precinct or district in which the registered voters reside, and for each precinct or district have printed a computer listing which contains the applications to register to vote in alphabetical order. These listings of applications to register to vote must be used to prepare the rosters.

3. From the applications to register to vote received by each county clerk, the county clerk shall:

(a) Segregate the applications electronically transmitted by the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 293.5747 in a computer file according to the precinct or district in which the registered voters reside; and

(b) Arrange the applications in each precinct or district in alphabetical order.

4. Each county clerk shall keep the applications to preregister to vote separate from the applications to register to vote until such applications are deemed to be applications to register to vote pursuant to NRS 293.4855.

(Added to NRS by 1960, 273; A 1985, 562; 1995, 2271; 2001, 2953; 2015, 3159; 2017, 3855; 2018 initiative petition, Ballot Question No. 5)

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