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§ 1-9-7.10 NMSA 1978

Voting systems; ballot handling and processing requirements

Laws 2010, ch. 28, § 8; 2023, ch. 39, § 56.

Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall:

A. accept a ballot that is a minimum of six inches wide and a maximum of twenty-two inches long, in dual columns and printed on both sides;

B. accept a ballot in any orientation when inserted by a voter;

C. have the capability to reject a ballot on which a voter has made more than the allowable number of selections in any contest;

D. be designed to accommodate the maximum number of ballot styles or ballot variations encountered in the largest New Mexico election jurisdiction;

E. be able to read a single ballot with at least four hundred twenty voting positions; and

F. tabulate as a vote only the human-readable marks in the voter response area of a ballot.

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.