United States — New Mexico
NMSA 1-2-2.1. Administrative complaints; procedures
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The secretary of state must adopt rules for hearing certain voting-law complaints, and complainants must file written, signed, sworn, notarized complaints.
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United States — New Mexico
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The secretary of state must adopt rules for hearing certain voting-law complaints, and complainants must file written, signed, sworn, notarized complaints.
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The county clerk may appoint messengers, and messengers must take an oath before serving and meet the stated eligibility requirements.
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County party chairs may appoint challengers in writing for polling locations; if more than one challenger is appointed, they must be listed in ranking order.
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People must complete challenger/watcher training before serving, and the county clerk must provide and manage the training process.
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A challenger may be present at the polling place with a written appointment and may inspect specified election materials and machines for challenge purposes.
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Challengers in the polling place must wear official identification badges and may not wear other identification or candidate/party pins.
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Challengers, watchers, and county canvass observers may observe in certain election rooms, but they cannot do election board duties, handle ballots or related records, view certain voter identifiers, or interfere with the election or canvass.
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Denying a qualified challenger access to the polling place or the listed viewing and challenge rights is a petty misdemeanor.
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Some groups may appoint watchers for certain elections if they give written notice to the secretary of state on time and name the appointees.
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This section is repealed.
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Watchers and election observers may do certain observing and note-taking activities at polling places if they present a written appointment.
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The secretary of state must provide counties with voter-registration materials, election certificates, and voter instructions, and electoral materials must be available in English and Spanish, with oral access for historically unwritten minority languages.
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The secretary of state must prescribe a multipurpose certificate of registration form.
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It is a petty misdemeanor to deny a properly appointed watcher or election observer the right to be present at the polling place or to witness the precinct board’s duties, if the person is not disrupting the election.
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This section lets certain people appoint county canvass observers and sets who may serve, what observers may do, and limits on their conduct during canvassing.
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The section lets certain parties appoint state canvass observers and limits what those observers may do during the canvass.
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An election-related organization must register with the secretary of state before certain elections.
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The secretary of state must maintain an elections security program, and that program has duties to advise officials, coordinate with federal agencies, monitor voting systems, and may perform assessments and incident response for critical election infrastructure.
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The secretary of state must provide precinct-board instructions and a single statewide elections training manual.
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The secretary of state must organize statewide Election Code seminars, notify each county clerk in writing, and county clerks, one designated deputy, and one voting machine technician must attend.