NMSA 1-12-31. Conduct of election; disposition of ballot boxes and other
AI-assisted research summary: An election judge from the party different from the presiding judge must put the ballot-box seal number or the other ballot box key in an envelope for the district court and mail it immediately.
1-12-31. Conduct of election; disposition of ballot boxes and other election materials. A. The following election returns and materials shall not be placed in the ballot box and shall be returned immediately to the county clerk along with the locked ballot box: (1) the number on the numbered seal affixed to secure the ballot box or one ballot box key in an envelope addressed to the county clerk; (2) one signature roster; (3) one certificate of returns for the polling place; (4) the envelope containing any provisional paper ballots cast at the polling place; (5) the envelope containing any absentee or mailed ballots delivered to the polling place by the voter or an immediate family member of the voter; (6) the envelope containing paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator; (7) the envelope containing machine-tabulated paper ballots with write-in votes; and (8) all unused election supplies not destroyed pursuant to the Election Code. B. The removable media storage device shall not be placed in the ballot box and shall be returned immediately to the county clerk either by messenger or along with the locked ballot box. C. The election judge of the party different from that of the presiding judge shall place the number on the numbered seal affixed to secure the ballot box or the other ballot box key in the envelope addressed to the district court and immediately mail it to the district court. History: 1953 Comp., § 3-12-55, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 291; 1977, ch. 222, § 41; 1987, ch. 249, § 37; 1987, ch. 327, § 16; 1991, ch. 105, § 32; 2009, ch. 150, § 17; 2011, ch. 137, § 96; 2015, ch. 145, § 65; 2019, ch. 212, § 114.