Chapter 32 — ELECTIONS
544 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-807 Ballots; number; printing and delivery.
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The election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk shall print and deliver to each precinct or district in the county, city, or village an approximate number of ballots based upon what would appear sufficient at the time the ballots are to be printed. Such totals s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-808 Ballots for early voting; delivery; special ballot; publication of application form.
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 32-939.02, ballots for early voting to be mailed pursuant to section 32-941 shall be ready for delivery to registered voters at least thirty-five days prior to each statewide primary or general election and at least fifteen days prior t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-808.01 Ballot for early voting; application; distribution by mail; requirements; applicability.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person or organization distributing an application by mail for a ballot for early voting shall: (a) Use the form prescribed by the Secretary of State. The form shall contain on the top of the first page in bold type (i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-809 Statewide primary election; official ballot; form; contents.
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(1) The form of the official ballot at the statewide primary election shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. At the top of the ballot and over all else shall be printed in boldface type the name of the political party, ....... Official Ballot, Primary Election 20.. . Each…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-810 Primary election ballot; arrangement of names and proposals.
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(1) The election commissioner or county clerk shall place the names of all partisan candidates certified to him or her by the Secretary of State and of those partisan candidates filing in his or her office on a primary election ballot headed with the political party designation. …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-811 Political subdivisions; certain county officers; names not on ballot; when.
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(1)(a) If the names of candidates properly filed for nomination at the primary election for directors of natural resources districts, directors of public power districts, members of airport authority boards elected pursuant to sections 32-547 to 32-549, members of the boards of g…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-812 Statewide general election; official ballot; form.
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The form of the official ballot at the statewide general election shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. At the top of the ballot for general elections and over all else shall be printed in boldface type the words Official Ballot, General Election, November ........., 20.…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-813 Statewide general election; ballot; contents.
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(1) The names of all candidates and all proposals to be voted upon at the general election shall be arranged upon the ballot in parts separated from each other by bold lines in the order the offices and proposals are set forth in this section. If any office is not subject to the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-814 General election ballot; arrangement of names.
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(1) The election commissioner or county clerk shall place the names of all nonpartisan candidates upon the same official general election ballot as the partisan candidates. The names placed on the official and sample general election ballots shall be the names of candidates nomin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-815 General election ballot; partisan candidates; placement and rotation of names.
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(1) The names of candidates for each partisan elective office shall be arranged on the ballot of the general election so that the political party polling the highest number of votes at the last general election for Governor will have the name of its nominee immediately beneath th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-816 Official ballots; write-in space provided; exceptions; requirements.
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(1) A blank space shall be provided at the end of each office division on the ballot for registered voters to fill in the name of any person for whom they wish to vote and whose name is not printed upon the ballot. A square or oval shall be printed opposite each write-in space si…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-817 Official ballots; printing requirements.
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The names of the candidates shall be set in boldface type using capital and lowercase letters. A square or oval shall be printed opposite the name of each candidate. At the general election, the name of the party represented by a candidate for partisan office shall be printed in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-818 Death of candidate; removal of name from ballot.
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The Secretary of State, election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk may remove a name from the ballot upon personal knowledge or proof of death at any time prior to the actual printing of the ballot even if the notice of election has been published containing th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-819 Ballots; errors; how corrected.
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(1) Whenever it appears by affidavit that an error or omission has occurred in the name or description of a candidate nominated for office or in the printing of the sample or official ballots, the county or district judge sitting at chambers may by order, upon the application of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-820 Ballots; political party circle or other predetermined selection; prohibited.
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No official ballot for an elective office within this state shall contain any political party circle or any provision for voting for all candidates of one political party or for a predetermined selection of candidates of one political party by the making of a mark or other indica…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-821 Ballots; delivery to election officials; unofficial ballots; when authorized.
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Before the opening of the polls the election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk shall cause to be delivered to the judges of election at each polling place the proper number of ballots as provided for in section 32-807. The ballots for each precinct shall be enc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-822 Ballots; numbering of classes.
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When voters are presented with more than one ballot on election day, the election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk may number each class of ballots to identify the style, precinct, or number of split ballots for convenience in distributing and counting the bal…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-901 Ballots; voting procedure.
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(1) To vote for a candidate or on a ballot question using a paper ballot that is to be manually counted, the registered voter shall make a cross or other clear, discernible mark in the square opposite the name of every candidate, including write-in candidates, for whom he or she …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-902 Voting instructions; voting information; posting.
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(1) The election commissioner or county clerk shall cause instructions for the guidance of registered voters in preparing their ballots to be printed in large, clear type on cards in English. He or she shall furnish at least five such cards to each polling place in each precinct …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-903 Precincts; creation; requirements; election commissioner or county clerk; powers and duties.
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(1) The election commissioner or county clerk shall create precincts composed of compact and contiguous territory within the boundary lines of legislative districts. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, precincts shall contain: (a) At least seventy-five registere…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-904 Polling places; designation; changes; notification required.
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(1) The election commissioner or county clerk shall designate the polling places for each precinct at which the registered voters of the precinct will cast their votes. Polling places representing different precincts may be combined at a single location when potential sites canno…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-905 Political subdivision; building; use as polling place or for election training purposes; when.
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A political subdivision which receives federal or state funds and owns or leases a building which is suitable for a polling place in the county shall make the building available to the election commissioner or county clerk for use as a polling place or for election training purpo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-906 Polling place; supplies and equipment; designation outside precinct; standards.
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(1) The election commissioner or county clerk shall provide each polling place with ballot boxes, ballot box locks and keys, and a sufficient number of voting booths furnished with supplies and conveniences to enable each registered voter to prepare his or her ballot for voting a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-907 Polling places; accessibility requirements; Secretary of State; duties; training manual; training.
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(1) All polling places shall be accessible to all registered voters and shall be in compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, and the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, as amended. In addition, all polling places shall be modified or rel…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-908 Polls; when opened and closed; receipt of ballots; deadline.
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(1) At all elections in the area of this state lying within the Mountain Standard or Mountain Daylight time zone, the polls shall open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. of the same day, and in the area lying within the Central Standard or Central Daylight time zone, the polls shall o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-909 Ballot box; inspection and use; election officials; duties.
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Before any ballot is deposited in the ballot box, the ballot box shall be publicly opened and exhibited and the judges and clerks of election shall see that no ballot is in the box. The ballot box shall then be locked and the key delivered to one of the judges of election or, in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-910 Polling places; obstructions prohibited; restrictions on access.
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Any judge or clerk of election, precinct or district inspector, sheriff, or other peace officer shall clear the passageways and prevent obstruction of the doors or entries and provide free ingress to and egress from the polling place or building and shall arrest any person obstru…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-911 Judges of election; presence; required.
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No two judges of election shall be absent at the same time from the room in which the election is held during the hours the polls are open or while the votes are being counted.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-912 Voters; ballots to which entitled; political party rule.
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(1) Any registered voter desiring to vote in a primary election held under the Election Act shall be entitled to participate in such primary election upon presenting himself or herself at the polling place for his or her residence. A registered voter who is affiliated with a poli…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-912.01 Voter with religious objection to being photographed; notation on precinct list of registered voters.
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(1) A voter with a religious objection to being photographed may inform the election commissioner or county clerk of the county in which the voter resides of such objection in writing prior to an election. If the election commissioner or county clerk receives written notice not l…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-912.02 Standard certification; reasonable impediment; grounds; Secretary of State, election commissioner, county clerk; duties.
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(1) The Secretary of State shall provide a standard certification for a voter with a reasonable impediment preventing the voter from obtaining valid photographic identification. A voter with a reasonable impediment shall check to identify the applicable reasonable impediment box …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-913 Precinct list of registered voters; sign-in register; preparation and use.
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(1) The clerks of election shall have a list of registered voters of the precinct and a sign-in register at the polling place on election day. The list of registered voters shall be used for guidance on election day and may be in the form of a computerized, typed, or handwritten …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-914 Ballots; distribution procedure.
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(1) Official ballots shall be used at all elections. No person shall receive a ballot or be entitled to vote unless and until he or she is registered as a voter except as provided in section 32-914.01, 32-914.02, 32-915, 32-915.01, or 32-936. (2) Except as otherwise specifically …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-914.01 Registered voter; change of name; entitled to vote; when.
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If a person who is registered to vote changes his or her name but the voter registration register has not been changed to reflect the change of name, the person shall be entitled to vote at the polling place upon completing a registration application to update his or her voter re…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-914.02 Registered voter; change of residence; entitled to vote; when.
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If a person who is registered to vote moves to a new residence within the same county and precinct and has continuously resided in such county and precinct since registering to vote but the voter registration register has not been changed to reflect the move, the person shall be …
Repealed. Laws 2003, LB 358, § 46.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-915 Provisional ballot; conditions; certification.
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(1) A person whose name does not appear on the precinct list of registered voters at the polling place for the precinct in which he or she resides, whose name appears on the precinct list of registered voters at the polling place for the precinct in which he or she resides at a d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-915.01 Provisional ballot; required; when.
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Any person who votes in an election for federal office as a result of a federal or state court order or any other order extending the time established for closing the polls pursuant to a state law in effect ten days before the date of that election may only vote in that election …
Repealed. Laws 2005, LB 566, § 59.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-915.03 Provisional voter identification verification envelope; required; when; certification.
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(1) A registered voter shall fill out a provisional voter identification verification envelope if: (a)(i) The voter fails to produce valid photographic identification at the polling place; and (ii) The voter's name appears on the precinct list of registered voters for the polling…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-916 Ballots; initials required; approval; deposit in ballot box; procedure.
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(1) Two judges of election or a precinct inspector and a judge of election shall affix their initials to the official ballots. The judge of election shall deliver a ballot to each registered voter after complying with section 32-914. (2) After voting the ballot, the registered vo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-917 Spoiled ballots; how treated.
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Any registered voter who spoils his or her ballot may receive another ballot after returning the spoiled ballot. No registered voter shall receive more than four ballots in all. The registered voter shall write a note on the ballot indicating that it is spoiled, such as spoiled, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-918 Assistance to registered voters; when; procedure.
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(1) If a registered voter declares to the judge of election that the voter cannot read or that the voter is blind or visually impaired or has a disability such that the registered voter requires assistance in the marking of the voter's ballot, (a) the registered voter may be assi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-919 Registered voter; ballots; prohibited acts; forfeit vote.
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Every registered voter receiving a ballot shall, before leaving the polling room, vote or, if he or she does not wish to vote, return all ballots so received to be deposited into the ballot box by a member of the receiving board. No person receiving a ballot shall take the same f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-920 Registered voter; memorandum; use permitted.
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A registered voter may take with him or her into the polling place any printed or written memorandum or paper to assist him or her in preparing or marking the ballot.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-921 Registered voter; occupancy and time restrictions.
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Except as provided in subsection (1) of section 32-918, no registered voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting booth occupied by another. A registered voter shall not remain within the enclosure in which the voting booths are situated more than twenty minutes unless he or she is…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-922 Employees; time allowed for voting, when.
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Any registered voter who does not have two consecutive hours in the period between the time of the opening and closing of the polls during which he or she is not required to be present at work for an employer shall be entitled on election day to be absent from employment for such…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-923 Registered voters; privileges on election day.
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Registered voters shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the attendance at elections and while going to and returning from the same. No registered voter shall be obliged to do military duty on election day except in ti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-924 Police officers and sheriffs; appointment to serve; when.
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The election commissioner, county clerk, or city or village clerk may appoint or summon such police officers and sheriffs as may be necessary to maintain order at the election and enforce the Election Act. Except in counties having an election commissioner, if no police officer o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-925 Polls; disturbing elections prohibited; arrest.
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If any person conducts himself or herself in a noisy, riotous, or tumultuous manner at or about the polls so as to disturb the election or insults or abuses the precinct or district inspectors or judges or clerks of election and persists in such conduct after being warned to desi…