NRS
293.407 Filing of written statement of contest with clerk of district
court; verification; notification.
1. A candidate at any election, or any
registered voter of the appropriate political subdivision, may contest the
election of any candidate, except for the office of United States Senator or
Representative in Congress.
2. Except where the contest involves the
general election for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Assemblyman,
Assemblywoman, State Senator, justice of the Supreme Court or judge of the
Court of Appeals, a candidate or voter who wishes to contest an election,
including election to the office of presidential elector, must, within the time
prescribed in NRS 293.413 or 293.424, file with the clerk of the
district court a written statement of contest, setting forth:
(a) The name of the contestant and that the
contestant is a registered voter of the political subdivision in which the
election to be contested or part of it was held;
(b) The name of the defendant;
(c) The office to which the defendant was
declared elected;
(d) The particular grounds of contest and the
section of Nevada Revised Statutes pursuant to which the statement is filed;
and
(e) The date of the declaration of the result of
the election and the body or board which canvassed the returns thereof.
3. The contestant shall verify the
statement of contest in the manner provided for the verification of pleadings
in civil actions.
4. All material regarding a contest filed
by a contestant with the clerk of the district court must be filed in
triplicate.
5. The contestant must notify the
defendant that a statement of contest has been filed pursuant to this section.
(Added to NRS by 1960,
263; A 1965,
1230; 1981,
1741; 2013,
1778; 2021,
566; 2023,
3308)
Notes of Decisions
Sec'y of State v. STATE LEGISLATURE, 93 P.3d 746 (Nev. 2004).
· cites it 2× “182(4) (authorizing judicial review over challenges to a candidate’s qualifications). 57 E.g., Bond v.”
Laxalt v. Cannon, 397 P.2d 466 (Nev. 1964).
· cites it 3× “On December 3, 1964, Laxalt filed a statement of contest with this court (NRS 293.407). On December 4, 1964, Governor Sawyer issued a certificate of election to Senator Cannon (NRS 293.”
Child v. Lomax, 188 P.3d 1103 (Nev. 2008).
· cites it 2× “, Child seeks a writ of mandamus directing respondent Ross Miller, in his capacity as Nevada Secretary of State, to include a challenge to Buckley’s candidacy in Miller’s challenges to certain other candidacies, which were filed in this court on the ground that those candidates…”
O'Connor v. Mallory, 282 P.3d 739 (Nev. 2012).
· cites it 2× “1 To support his petition, O’Connor cited to two Nevada election statutes, NRS 293.407(1) and NRS 293.410(2)(b). Under NRS 293.”
Beko v. Kelly, 376 P.2d 429 (Nev. 1962).
· cites it 2× “Beko, as contestant, filed a “statement of contest and request for declaratory relief” against Kelly, defendant, pursuant to NRS 293.407. Such section permits a candidate at any election to contest the election of any candidate, and requires the contestant to file with the clerk…”
Anthony Vs. Miller (ballot Issue), 2021 NV 25 (Nev. 2021).
· cites it 4× “An election contest must be filed in the district court within a short time after the election results are certified, NRS 293.407; NRS 293.413(2), and must be heard by the district court in an expedited 5 .”
Law Vs. Whitmer (Ballot Issue), 477 P.3d 1124 (Nev. 2020).
“See generally NRS 293.407 (allowing for contest of election to the office of presidential elector); NRS 293.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.407(1) — 1 case
O'Connor v. Mallory, 282 P.3d 739 (Nev. 2012).
“1 To support his petition, O’Connor cited to two Nevada election statutes, NRS 293.407(1) and NRS 293.410(2)(b). Under NRS 293.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 293.407(2) — 1 case
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.