Sunday, June 28, 2026 | 2 a.m.
Last week's deadline to taxable ballot petition signatures came and went without a azygous caller national inaugural qualifying for Nevada’s November wide predetermination ballot — leaving voters with conscionable 2 measures to determine this fall, the fewest since 2012.
The June 24 deadline marked the past accidental for petition sponsors to record signatures for law inaugural petitions.
While the Nevada Secretary of State’s bureau had approved 5 measures for signature circulation, sponsors did not taxable signatures for immoderate of them. Combined with a Legislature that produced nary referrals and 2 projected legislative amendments that died successful the 2025 session, the November ballot volition dwell wholly of 2 law amendments that Nevada voters already approved successful 2024 and indispensable ratify a 2nd clip to beryllium enacted.
It's Nevada’s lowest ballot measurement number since 2012, erstwhile conscionable 1 appeared. The state’s all-time mean is 4.2 measures per even-numbered year.
Two questions connected the ballot
Question 6: Abortion rights
Nevada voters volition for the 2nd clip measurement Question 6, the Right to Abortion Initiative, which would enshrine successful the authorities Constitution the close to an termination performed by a qualified wellness attraction practitioner until fetal viability — mostly understood to beryllium astir 23 oregon 24 weeks — oregon astatine immoderate constituent to support the beingness oregon wellness of the large patient.
Nevada voters passed Question 6 with 64% of the ballot successful 2024.
Because of Nevada’s unsocial two-election request for citizen-initiated law amendments, the amendment cannot instrumentality effect unless voters o.k. it again successful November. Nevada is the lone authorities successful the federation with that requirement, which voters themselves adopted successful 1962.
Nevada authorities instrumentality already protects termination until 24 weeks of pregnancy, the effect of a statute lawmakers passed successful the 1990s that voters upheld successful a 1990 veto referendum by 63.5%. If added to the authorities Constitution, an amendment would adhd different furniture of information — law protections are acold harder to repeal oregon onslaught down than statutes.
Supporters accidental that furniture of extortion matters much than ever successful the post-Roe landscape. Abortion is ineligible successful Nevada, but proponents reason that national unit and shifting nationalist argumentation marque a authorities law warrant essential.
Opponents, including Nevada Right to Life and the Coalition for Parents and Children, contend the state’s existing instrumentality already offers robust protections and that a law amendment could person unintended consequences.
Historical information provides immoderate guidance: According to Ballotopedia, since 1980, second-cycle votes declined successful yes-vote stock for 14 of 17 initiated law amendments, by an mean of 8.7 percent points. Thirteen of 17, oregon 76.5%, yet passed. For Question 6, starting from a 64% margin, that signifier would inactive permission it comfortably supra 50%.
The Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom PAC, which led the 2024 campaign, raised much than $11 cardinal during that cycle.
Question 7: Voter identification
Also returning for a 2nd ballot is Question 7, the Require Voter Identification Initiative, which would amend the Nevada Constitution to necessitate in-person voters to amusement a government-issued photograph ID earlier casting a ballot. Mail voters would request to supply the past 4 digits of their Nevada driver’s license, their Social Security fig oregon their elector registration number.
Nevada voters approved Question 7 with 73.3% of the ballot successful November 2024.
Acceptable forms of photograph ID nether the amendment would see a driver’s license, state- oregon federal-government-issued recognition card, authorities worker photograph ID, U.S. passport, U.S. subject card, a pupil photograph ID from a Nevada nationalist college, a tribal photograph ID card, a Nevada concealed firearms licence oregon different signifier of government-issued photograph identification.
Nevada presently does not necessitate recognition to ballot astatine the polls, alternatively relying connected voters’ signatures to verify identity. Republicans person argued that elector ID is simply a commonsense measurement to physique spot successful elections, portion Democrats person said specified laws disproportionately impact voters of color.
The inaugural was championed by Repair the Vote PAC, led by erstwhile Clark County Republican Party Chairman David Gibbs, and it received important fiscal backing, including much than $1 cardinal from Las Vegas Sands, whose largest shareholder is GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson. Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who is up for reelection this fall, co-chaired the Nevada Voter ID Coalition and threw his value down the measure.
Nevada volition beryllium 1 of six states voting connected elector ID measures successful 2026 — the astir successful a azygous twelvemonth connected record, according to Ballotpedia. Oklahoma votes successful August; Arizona, California, North Carolina and Ohio besides ballot Nov. 3.
What didn’t marque it
Teacher onslaught initiative: Withdrawn aft legislative deal
Perhaps the astir melodramatic saga of the 2026 inaugural rhythm progressive an effort by the Clark County Education Association to fto teachers spell connected onslaught — a close denied to each Nevada nationalist employees since 1969.
The inaugural was filed by the A Teacher successful Every Classroom run successful January 2024. Petitioners submitted 127,812 valid signatures successful November 2024, surpassing the 102,362 required, with signatures distributed crossed each 4 legislature districts. Under Nevada’s indirect inaugural process for statutory measures, the petition past went to the authorities Legislature. The Legislature had 40 days to act; it did not, which qualified the inaugural for the 2026 ballot.
The CCEA, which represents astir 18,000 teachers and licensed unit successful the Clark County School District, utilized the certified ballot measurement arsenic leverage successful Carson City. The national had successfully deployed the aforesaid strategy successful 2021, erstwhile it qualified 2 tax-related measures and past withdrew them aft lawmakers approved further mining taxation gross for schools.
The gambit worked again. On May 29, 2025, Lombardo signed Senate Bill 161, which clarified that protests and pickets bash not represent a onslaught nether authorities law, portion inactive allowing schools to subject teachers who walked disconnected the occupation during schoolhouse hours and inactive permitting fines for coordinated district-wide strikes. As a effect of SB 161’s passage, the inaugural was withdrawn.
Lombardo had antecedently said helium opposed allowing nationalist employees to strike. His bureau noted that the instrumentality helium signed inactive prohibits strikes and allows fines for coordinated labour actions — meaning teachers did not triumph an outright close to strike, but won a clearer ineligible explanation of what constitutes protected concerted activity.
Protect Girls’ Sports: Withdrawn aft ineligible delays
Lombardo besides enactment his sanction down a 2nd inaugural — an effort by the Protect Girls’ Sports PAC to amend the Nevada Constitution to necessitate publically funded schoolhouse sports to categorize athletes by biologic enactment assigned astatine birth, blocking transgender pistillate athletes from competing connected female-designated teams.
Lombardo announced the inaugural this past January, saying it was needed to support fairness and information successful girls’ sports. Audio aboriginal obtained by The Nevada Independent captured the politician describing the inaugural arsenic portion of his reelection strategy to thrust elector turnout successful a nonpresidential predetermination year.
The inaugural faced an contiguous ineligible challenge. The Nevada section of the National Organization for Women filed suit, arguing the ballot initiative’s statement of effect was misleading due to the fact that it failed to enactment that the measurement would carve retired an objection to the state’s Equal Rights Amendment, which Nevada voters passed successful 2022 and which prohibits favoritism based connected sex identity.
Carson City District Court Judge Jason Woodbury dismissed astir of the situation successful February but required the initiative’s sponsors to update the statement of effect to explicitly authorities the measurement would amend the Equal Rights Amendment.
Faced with the delays, organizers yet ran retired of time. Lombardo announced that the ineligible uncertainty had made it intolerable to stitchery signatures earlier the June 24 deadline and said helium would alternatively inquire the Nevada Legislature to instrumentality up the contented successful its adjacent biennial session, slated for February 2027.
Silver State Equality, a civilian rights enactment that advocates for LGBTQ Nevadans, said the result reflected the initiative’s deficiency of fashionable support, noting that advocates, parents, educators and assemblage members had spoken retired against enshrining what it called favoritism into the Nevada Constitution.
Notably, policies already barroom transgender athletes from competing connected teams that bash not lucifer their enactment assigned astatine commencement astatine the precocious schoolhouse level — done the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association — and successful assemblage sports, nether NCAA policy.
Open primaries and autarkic redistricting: Four petitions fail
Vote Nevada PAC filed petitions successful 2 waves during autumn 2025, each requiring 148,788 valid signatures by Wednesday’s deadline — the highest threshold connected grounds successful Nevada, a effect of the 2024 statesmanlike election’s turnout of 1,487,887.
In its archetypal question Sept. 9, Vote Nevada filed 2 petitions: 1 for an autarkic redistricting committee and 1 to unfastened superior elections to nonpartisan voters. The redistricting petition drew an contiguous suit from Democratic predetermination attorneys arguing it created an unconstitutional unfunded mandate — the aforesaid statement that had sunk earlier redistricting efforts successful 2020, 2022 and 2024. Vote Nevada withdrew that archetypal redistricting petition Oct. 1 alternatively than combat the case.
The PAC refiled Oct. 9 with 2 revised petitions. The caller redistricting petition attempted to code the ineligible objection by transferring existing legislative redistricting backing to the projected commission. The caller unfastened primaries petition would person guaranteed nonpartisan voters — who present outnumber registered Democrats oregon Republicans successful Nevada — the close to enactment successful publically funded superior elections. A 5th petition, filed Nov. 18 by a abstracted organization, Freedom to Try Medical Innovations for Nevada, would person established a law close for patients with life-altering conditions to entree experimental treatments.
According to the Nevada Secretary of State’s petition log, nary of the 5 measures received a withdrawal announcement aft Oct. 1. All expired Wednesday erstwhile the deadline passed with nary signatures submitted for immoderate of them. Vote Nevada PAC, which acknowledged having nary dedicated backing and relying connected unpaid signature-gathering, could not conscionable the record-high threshold.
The unfastened primaries effort was pitched arsenic chiseled from Question 3 connected the 2024 ballot, which combined unfastened primaries with ranked-choice voting for wide elections and was defeated 53%-47%.
Nevada lottery: Died successful the Legislature
A connection to legalize a authorities lottery — which Nevada’s constitution presently forbids — cleared the Legislature successful 2023 but ne'er got a 2nd proceeding successful 2025, efficaciously sidesplitting its way to the 2026 ballot. Assembly Joint Resolution 5 was approved by the Assembly, 26-15, and the Senate, 12-8, successful 2023 but died without a proceeding successful the 2025 session. The bill’s pb sponsor, Assemblyman C.H. Miller, a Democrat, did not question reelection.
Since 1975, determination person been 30 failed attempts to amend the authorities Constitution to enact a lottery. The 2023 effort was the archetypal clip since 1899 that authorities lawmakers had managed to walk a lottery bill. Revenue from a lottery would person funded intelligence wellness services. The casino industry, which recorded a grounds $15.6 cardinal successful gross successful 2024, has agelong lobbied against a statewide lottery.
National Popular Vote: Sponsors didn’t prosecute 2nd passage
A law amendment that would person entered Nevada into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact — directing the state’s Electoral College votes to the statesmanlike campaigner who wins the nationalist fashionable ballot — besides fell abbreviated of the 2026 ballot. The Nevada Senate approved Assembly Joint Resolution 6 successful the 2023 session, 12-9, aft the Assembly passed it 27-14. The measure’s sponsors did not petition transition successful the 2025 Legislature.
Right to reproductive freedom: Legislature declined to refer
Separately from the citizen-initiated Question 6, Democratic lawmakers successful the 2023 Legislature passed a broader, legislatively referred law amendment connected reproductive rights — 1 that would person protected not conscionable termination but a wider scope of reproductive decisions including contraception, IVF and miscarriage management. For the amendment to scope the 2026 ballot, the Legislature would person needed to walk it a 2nd clip successful 2025. It did not.
According to Ballotpedia, this marks lone the 2nd clip since 1952 that nary legislative referrals appeared connected Nevada’s ballot — the different being 2016, though that twelvemonth inactive included 4 caller national initiatives.
What voters volition besides determine successful November
Both ballot measures stock November’s ballot with a competitory gubernatorial contention — Lombardo seeks a 2nd word against Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford — different state-level law offices and 4 U.S. House contests. There are nary U.S. Senate races successful Nevada successful 2026.
A slew of races for municipal and county-level offices volition beryllium contested successful November, on with judicial elections.
Voter familiarity with some ballot measures is apt higher than for a emblematic first-cycle initiative. Both Question 6 and Question 7 ran statewide campaigns successful 2024. Lombardo supports the elector ID measure. He has said helium personally opposes the termination rights measurement but has not campaigned against it.
The wide predetermination is Nov. 3. Early voting runs Oct. 17-30.
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