A. For each presidential election, the county clerk shall keep a "new resident - former resident presidential ballot register" containing the names of new residents and former residents in a form and manner prescribed by the secretary of state.
B. Such register is a public record open to public inspection in the county clerk's office during regular office hours.
C. The county clerk shall transmit to the secretary of state and to the county chairman of each of the major political parties in the county, a complete copy of entries made in such register. Such transmission shall be made once each week beginning four weeks immediately prior to the presidential election. A final copy shall be transmitted on the Friday immediately following the presidential election.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-21-6, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 322, § 6.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 21 - Federal Voting Rights Compliance
Section 1-21-3 - Eligibility of new resident and former resident to vote.
Section 1-21-4 - Application for presidential ballot.
Section 1-21-5 - Processing application; issuance of ballot; casting of ballot.
Section 1-21-6 - New resident; former resident; presidential ballot register.
Section 1-21-7 - Form of presidential ballot.
Section 1-21-8 - Presidential ballot envelopes.
Section 1-21-9 - Manner of voting of new residents and former residents.
Section 1-21-10 - Delivery of presidential ballots to absent voter precincts.
Section 1-21-11 - Handling presidential ballots by absent voter precinct board [election board].
Section 1-21-12 - Cancellation of presidential ballot at death.