Preparation and distribution of mail ballots; exceptions; mail ballot contents; time for distribution; mootness of untimely legal action which would prevent distribution

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the county clerk shall prepare and distribute to each active registered voter in the county and each person who registers to vote or updates his or her voter registration information not later than the 14 days before the election a mail ballot for every election. The county clerk shall make reasonable accommodations for the use of the mail ballot by a person who is elderly or disabled, including, without limitation, by providing, upon request, the mail ballot in 12-point type to a person who is elderly or disabled. 2. The county clerk shall allow a voter to elect not to receive a mail ballot pursuant to this section by submitting to the county clerk a written notice in the form prescribed by the county clerk which must be received by the county clerk not later than 60 days before the day of the election. 3. The county clerk shall not distribute a mail ballot to any person who: (a) Registers to vote for the election pursuant to the provisions of NRS 293.5772 to 293.5887, inclusive; or (b) Elects not to receive a mail ballot pursuant to subsection 2. 4. The county clerk may allow a voter to elect to receive a mail ballot pursuant to subparagraph (1) of paragraph (a) of subsection 6 before the fifth Monday before the election. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a county clerk to provide a mail ballot to any voter before mail ballots are available for distribution. 5. The mail ballot must include all offices, candidates and measures upon which the voter is entitled to vote at the election. 6. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2, 3 and 4, the mail ballot must be distributed to: (a) Each active registered voter who: (1) Resides within the State, on or after the fifth Monday before the election but not later than the fourth Monday before the election; and (2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c), resides outside the State, not later than 40 days before the election. (b) Each active registered voter who registers to vote after the dates set for distributing mail ballots pursuant to paragraph (a) but who is eligible to receive a mail ballot pursuant to subsection 1, not later than 13 days before the election. (c) Each covered voter who is entitled to have a military-overseas ballot transmitted pursuant to the provisions of chapter 293D of NRS or the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U.S.C. §§ 20301 et seq., not later than the time required by those provisions. 7. In the case of a special election where no candidate for federal office will appear on the ballot, the mail ballot must be distributed to each active registered voter not later than 15 days before the special election. 8. Any untimely legal action which would prevent the mail ballot from being distributed to any voter pursuant to this section is moot and of no effect.