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§ 1-20-8 NMSA 1978

False voting

1953 Comp., § 3-20-6, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 432; 2011, ch. 137, § 103.

False voting consists of:

A. voting or offering to vote with the knowledge of not being a qualified elector;

B. voting or offering to vote in the name of any other person;

C. voting or offering to vote more than once in the same election;

D. falsifying any information on an absentee ballot official mailing envelope or affixing a signature or mark other than one's own on an absentee ballot official mailing envelope;

E. inducing, abetting or procuring or attempting to induce, abet or procure a person known to not be a qualified elector to vote; or

F. inducing, abetting or procuring or attempting to induce, abet or procure a person who, having voted once in any election, to vote or attempt to vote again at the same election.

Whoever commits false voting is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

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.