Nevada Code § 293.705

Unlawful acts concerning elections officials
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1. It is unlawful for any person to use or
threaten or attempt to use any force, intimidation, coercion, violence,
restraint or undue influence with the intent to:
(a) Interfere with the performance of the duties
of any elections official relating to an election; or
(b) Retaliate against any elections official for
performing duties relating to an election.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 apply
regardless of whether a person uses or threatens or attempts to use such force,
intimidation, coercion, violence, restraint or undue influence at a polling
place or a location other than a polling place.
3. It is unlawful for a person to
disseminate any personal identifying information or sensitive information of an
elections official without the consent of the elections official, knowing that
the elections official could be identified by such information, if:
(a) The person disseminates such personal
identifying information or sensitive information:
(1) With the intent to aid, assist,
encourage, facilitate, further or promote any criminal offense which would be
reasonably likely to cause death, bodily injury or stalking; or
(2) With the intent to cause harm to the
elections official and with knowledge of or reckless disregard for the
reasonable likelihood that the dissemination of the information may cause
death, bodily injury or stalking; and
(b) The dissemination of the personal identifying
information or sensitive information:
(1) Would cause a reasonable person to
fear the death, bodily injury or stalking of himself or herself or a close
relation; or
(2) Causes the death, bodily injury or
stalking of the elections official whose information was disseminated or a
close relation of the elections official.
4. A person who violates the provisions of
subsection 1 or 3 is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as
provided in NRS 193.130 .
5. This section does not limit:
(a) The applicability of the provisions of law
relating to:
(1) Observing the conduct of voting at a
polling place pursuant to NRS 293.274 or 293C.269 ;
(2) Observing the conduct of tests
pursuant to NRS 293B.145 or 293C.615 ;
(3) Observing the handling of ballots upon
the closing of the polls pursuant to NRS
293B.330 or 293C.630 ;
(4) Observing the counting of ballots at
the central counting place pursuant to NRS
293B.353 ;
(5) Observing the delivery, counting,
handling and processing of the ballots at a polling place, receiving center and
the central counting place pursuant to NRS
293B.354 ; and
(6) Observing ballot processing pursuant
to NRS 293B.380 .
(b) The ability of a person to give or offer to
give prepackaged food items, nonalcoholic beverages, coats, handwarmers or
other similar items to other persons who are at a polling place or any other
location described in paragraph (a), if done in accordance with any other law
and to the extent such items are not distributed inside of a building which
does not permit the distribution of such items in the building as indicated by
a sign posted in a prominent place at the entrance of the building.
(c) The ability of a person to engage in written
recordation of notes at a polling place or a location other than a polling
place; or
(d) The ability of a person to communicate with
voters, election board officers or other persons in any way that is not
otherwise limited or prohibited pursuant to subsection 1 or 3 or any other
provision of law, including, without limitation, NRS 293.740 .
6. As used in this section:
(a) Close relation means a current or former
spouse or domestic partner, parent, child, sibling, stepparent, grandparent or
any person who regularly resides in the household or who, within the
immediately preceding 6 months, regularly resided in the household.
(b) Elections official means:
(1) The Secretary of State or any deputy
or employee in the Elections Division of the Office of the Secretary of State
who is charged with duties relating to an election;
(2) A registrar of voters, county clerk,
city clerk or any deputy or employee in the elections division of a county or
city who is charged with elections duties; or
(3) An election board officer or counting
board officer.
(c) Personal identifying information has the
meaning ascribed to it in NRS 205.4617 .
(d) Sensitive information has the meaning
ascribed to it in NRS 41.1347 .
(e) Stalking means a violation of NRS 200.575 .

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