NMSA 1-15-3. Presidential electors; nomination

1-15-3. Presidential electors; nomination. A. Any qualified political party in New Mexico desiring to have candidates for president and vice president on the general election ballot in a presidential election year shall, at a state party convention held in the year of such election, choose from the voters of the party the number of presidential electors required by law and no more. B. The presidential electors shall be nominated by the state convention according to the rules of that party on file with the secretary of state. C. Upon the nomination of presidential electors, the chair and secretary of the convention shall certify the names and addresses of the nominees not less than sixty-three days prior to the election to the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall record the nominees' names in the secretary's office as the presidential elector nominees of that party. History: 1953 Comp., § 3-15-3, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 353; 1977, ch. 222, § 90; 1981, ch. 145, § 1; 2017, ch. 101, § 16.