NRS293.243. Number of officers on absent ballot central counting board; appointment of deputy sheriff; absent ballot central counting board under direction of county clerk.

      1.  An absent ballot central counting board consists of election board officers appointed in such numbers as the county clerk determines to be required by the volume of absent ballots requested.

      2.  The county clerk’s deputies who perform duties in connection with elections shall be deemed officers of the absent ballot central counting board.

      3.  When requested by the county clerk, the sheriff shall appoint a deputy sheriff to keep order during the counting of the absent ballot votes by the absent ballot central counting board.

      4.  The absent ballot central counting board is under the direction of the county clerk.

      (Added to NRS by 1960, 249; A 1961, 288; 1967, 860; 1977, 242; 1981, 1739; 1985, 1595; 1987, 337; 1997, 3451)