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.
History: Laws 2010, ch. 28, § 8; 2023, ch. 39, § 56.
ANNOTATIONS
The 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, reduced the maximum ballot size that voting systems must accept to be certified, and clarified that only human readable marks shall be tabulated; in Subsection A, after "maximum of", deleted "twenty-four" and added "twenty-two"; and added Subsection F.