Nevada Elections Officials Praised By Federal Agency For Quick Response To Ballot Issue
Submitted by admin on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 2:20pm
By Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has praised Nevada elections officials for working “quickly and cooperatively” to address a delay in mailing ballots to uniformed and overseas voters due to the failure of a private vendor to deliver printed ballots on time.
The DOJ and Nevada Secretary of State’s office have worked diligently throughout the election cycle to monitor and enforce the federal Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE Act), which requires local elections officials to mail ballots to uniformed and overseas voters 45 days before the election if the ballots are requested by then.
The 45-day deadline was missed by four or five days in the case of 34 Elko County voters because the ballots were not delivered to the county on time.
As a result, Secretary of State Ross Miller’s office filed an emergency regulation on Oct. 6 allowing Elko County an additional six days to receive and count ballots from the 34 voters.
All 34 Elko County voters were contacted and informed of the options available to them for returning their ballots electronically well ahead of election day. Many of the voters have already cast and returned their ballots.
In a statement issued Friday, Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the DOJ Civil Rights Division, said: “Nevada officials worked quickly and cooperatively with the department and adopted measures that will ensure the state’s military and overseas voters will have their votes counted in the upcoming election.â€�
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