New Mexico Statutes
Article 6B - Uniform Military and Overseas Voters
Section 1-6B-10 - Use of federal write-in absentee ballot; qualification.

A. A federal qualified elector may use a federal write-in absentee ballot to vote for all offices and ballot questions in an election.
B. In completing the federal write-in absentee ballot, the federal qualified elector may designate a candidate by writing in the name of the candidate. In a general election when voting for a specified office, a federal qualified elector may in the alternate complete the federal write-in absentee ballot by writing in the name of a political party, in which case the ballot shall be counted for the candidate of that political party.
C. A qualified federal write-in absentee ballot shall be processed by the canvassing board in the same manner as a provisional ballot. A federal write-in absentee ballot from a federal qualified elector shall not be qualified if the federal qualified elector voted on any other type of ballot. A federal write-in absentee ballot of an overseas voter shall not be qualified if the ballot is submitted from any location in the United States.
History: Laws 2015, ch. 145, § 34; 2019, ch. 212, § 85.
The 2019 amendment, effective April 3, 2019, in Subsection A, after "offices and ballot", deleted "measures" and added "questions".
Applicability. — Laws 2015, ch. 145, § 102 provided that the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act is applicable to any federal postcard application received as of the first day of the current election cycle.

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