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§ 1-12-20 NMSA 1978

Conduct of election; interposing challenges

1953 Comp., § 3-12-37, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 273; 1987, ch. 249, § 31; 2011, ch. 137, § 90; 2025, ch. 54, § 7.

A challenge may be interposed by a member of the precinct board [election board] or by a party challenger for the following reasons:

A. the person offering to vote is not registered to vote;

B. the person offering to vote is listed among those persons to whom an absentee ballot was mailed;

C. the person offering to vote has already cast a ballot in that election;

D. the person offering to vote is improperly registered because the person is not a qualified elector; or

E. in the case of a primary election, the person desiring to vote is currently affiliated with a major political party or a political party not represented on the ballot and the person requests a ballot for a party with which the person is not affiliated.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.