We still have more than a year until the next general election, but we know some of the questions already on the ballot.
We are still more than a year away from the 2026 Nevada General Election.
There have been multiple candidates announcing their campaigns, and we know of at least two questions that will appear on the ballot.
Voters who participated in the 2024 election will remember them.
The first is Question 6, which centers around reproductive freedoms. It would enshrine abortion protections in the state's constitution if passed next year. Last year it passed with about 64% of the vote.
The other is Question 7, which focus on voter ID. It would amend the constitution to require folks to show identification before voting.
We reached out to the Governor's Office for comment and Press Secretary Josh Meny sent a statement saying, "After his voter ID bill was not heard by legislative Democrats in 2023, he took the issue directly to the people. As a result, Nevada voters overwhelmingly approved the measure known as Question 7. In the 2025 legislative session, a new voter ID bill was introduced; however, it failed to adequately secure mail ballots, a key election integrity measure. As mandated by Nevada's constitution, the voter ID initiative will once again be presented to voters in November 2026."
73 percent of voters cast their votes in favor of the measure the last time it was on the ballot.
There are two petitions for proposed ballot initiatives on the Secretary of State's website.
One is looking to allow nonpartisans to vote in primary elections. You may remember Question 3 on last year's ballot included open primaries. It was voted down by 53 percent of voters.
However, the petitioner of this new measure says it is different.
"I worked on ballot Question 3," said Sondra Cosgrove, Executive Director, Vote Nevada PAC. "Ballot question 3 was completely open primary. Everybody is on one ballot. And the top five will forward to the general election. And then we use ranked choice voting. There is nothing that we are proposing in this ballot petition that even remotely looks like ballot question 3."
The other petition centers around creating a new independent redistricting commission for the Legislature.
The commission would be made up of seven members, three would be people not affiliated with the Democratic or Republican party.
Cosgrove has tried to get this measure passed dating back to 2020.
"So, we're going to do it one more time," she said. "As a historian, I can tell you it takes a long time sometimes to get it just right so that people feel comfortable with the change."
Nevada redistricts congressional districts every 10 years, so the next time it will happen will be 2031.
The measure will also be under Open Meeting Law and the Public Records Act.
According to the Secretary of State's Office website, statewide petitions filed for the 2026 election cycle require 148,788 valid signatures from registered Nevada voters, including at least 37,197 signatures from each of the four petition districts in Nevada.
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