Election Modernization Symposium

If you are interested in watching tomorrow’s symposium but unable to attend in person, UNLV TV will live stream the meeting beginning at noon tomorrow. Access the stream at http://unlvtv.unlv.edu/live.htm.

Supplemental materials from this meeting, as well as additional material on SB 63, is posted on the Nevada Secretary of State’s website athttp://www.nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=1286.  A video and audio recording of this meeting will be available for viewing atwww.youtube.com/nvsecretaryofstate next week.

January 11, 2013

Noon – 2 p.m.

Election Modernization Symposium

Proposal submitted to the 2013 Nevada Legislature

SB 63

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for photographs of voters to be included in election board registers and rosters for early voting; requiring county clerks and city clerks to provide certain equipment relating to such photographs to election board officers and to deputy clerks for early voting; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide digital colored photographs of registered voters to the Secretary of State or a county clerk upon request; amending provisions relating to the identification of a registered voter who is unable to sign his or her name; prohibiting the inclusion of certain information in a list of registered voters made available to the public; requiring county clerks to create electronic election board registers; making various other changes relating to elections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Hear the panelists discuss SB 63 and ask your questions in a Q&A session. Dr. Robert E. Lang of Brookings Mountain West will serve as the moderator.

Panelists

Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie

Lee Rowland, Democracy Counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

Andres Ramirez, The Ramirez Group