What you need to know about Nevada's 7 ballot questions in 2024

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Nevada voters will have a lot more to decide this year than simply choosing their favorite candidates.

Seven ballot questions — some put forward by the Legislature and some put forward through petition drives — could make significant changes to state laws, from overhauling how the state conducts elections to eliminating sales taxes on a key grocery item for many Nevada families.

Here is a rundown of the seven questions on the Nov. 5 ballot, what they propose, and what supporters and opponents have to say about them.

Question 1: Nevada Board of Regents - It would remove the constitutional status of the Nevada Board of Regents, the governing body of Nevada’s universities, providing legislative oversight of public institutions through audits.

Question 2: Replacing disability-related language in the Nevada constitution - It would replace outdated language used to describe people with disabilities.

Question 3: Ranked choice voting and open primaries - It would replace the current closed-primary system with nonpartisan open primaries, with the top five finishers moving on to a general election whose winner would be determined with ranked-choice voting.

Question 4: Removing language authorizing the use of slavery as a criminal punishment - It would remove language authorizing the use of slavery as a criminal punishment.

Question 5: Make child and adult diapers exempt from taxes - It would exempt child and adult diapers from the state’s sales tax by amending the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955.

Question 6: Abortion codified in constitution - It would enshrine Nevada’s abortion rights into the Nevada Constitution.

Question 7: Voter ID - It would require voters to show a form of acceptable identification to vote in person during early voting or on Election Day, such as a Nevada driver’s license, a passport, tribal or university ID or another form of government-issued photo ID.

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1. voter ID is a form of poll tax unless the ID is free nt