A. The board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution creating, for absent voting purposes only, an absent voter precinct for each county.
B. Absent voter precincts shall be identified by the name of the county.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-6-20, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 54, § 3; 1971, ch. 317, § 12; 1975, ch. 255, § 92; 1977, ch. 222, § 14; 2005, ch. 270, § 52.
The 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, in Subsection A, provided that the resolution create a precinct for each county; in Subsection A, deleted the former provision which provided that the resolution create a precinct for each state legislative district and the boundaries of each precinct coincide with the boundaries of the state representative district except for multi-county representative districts where the boundaries of the precinct shall coincide with the boundaries of that portion of the representative district lying within the county; and in Subsection B, deleted the former provision which provided that precincts be identified by the name of the state representative district number or in multi-county representative districts the precinct shall be distinguished by the name of the county.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 1-6-1 - Absent Voter Act; short title.
Section 1-6-1.1 - Definitions.
Section 1-6-3 - Right to vote absentee.
Section 1-6-4 - Mailed ballot application.
Section 1-6-4.3 - Third party agents collecting applications for mailed ballots.
Section 1-6-5 - Processing application; issuance of ballot.
Section 1-6-5.6 - Early voting; alternate voting locations; procedures.
Section 1-6-5.8 - Early voting; Native American early voting locations.
Section 1-6-6 - Ballot register.
Section 1-6-8 - Mailed ballot envelopes.
Section 1-6-9 - Mailed ballots; manner of voting; delivery methods.
Section 1-6-9.2 - Preparation of electronic voting machines.
Section 1-6-10 - Receipt of mailed ballots by clerk.
Section 1-6-10.1 - Absentee ballot; delivery to county clerk.
Section 1-6-11 - Delivery of absentee ballots to absent voter precincts.
Section 1-6-14 - Handling mailed ballots.
Section 1-6-15 - Canvass; recount or recheck; disposition.
Section 1-6-16 - Mailed ballots; replacement and provisional paper ballots.
Section 1-6-16.2 - Additional emergency procedure for voting.
Section 1-6-20 - Creation of absent voter precinct.
Section 1-6-22 - Designation of absent voter precinct polling place.
Section 1-6-22.1 - Mail ballot election precinct; absentee voting in lieu of polling place.
Section 1-6-23 - Absent voter precinct polling place; hours on election day and subsequent days.