New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS › Part 22 - PROVISIONAL VOTING › Section 1.10.22.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Adjudicate"
means a decision made by a precinct board, in
				accordance with the Election Code, of a ballot signifying a voter's intent to
				mark their selection for a candidate contest or ballot question.
B.
"Alternate voting location"
means a location outside the office of the county clerk, established by the
				county clerk, where a voter may cast an early in person ballot on voting
				tabulator. This includes mobile alternate voting locations.
C.
"Blank ballot"
means a paper
				ballot on which the voter has not selected any of the alternatives allowed in
				any candidate contest or ballot question.
D.
"Canvass"
means the process
				of qualifying and verifying paper ballots and counting and tallying votes for
				each precinct beginning upon the closing of the polls and ending with the
				certification and announcement of the results by the county canvassing board
				pursuant to Subsection F of Section
				1-2-31 NMSA 1978.
E.
"Challenger"
means a voter of
				a precinct located in that county, who has completed the required training
				pursuant to Section
				1-2-22 NMSA 1978, and to which the
				voter is appointed in conformance with the Election Code, for the purpose of
				carrying out such duties as prescribed in the Election Code.
F.
"Contest"
means court
				litigation that seeks to overturn the outcome of an election pursuant to the
				Election Code, Section
				1-14-1 NMSA 1978.
G.
"County canvass observer"
a
				voter of the county, who has completed the required training pursuant to
				Section 1-2-22 NMSA 1978, and to which they
				are appointed, in accordance with the Election Code, Section
				1-2-31 NMSA 1978, and permitted to
				be present at any time from the time the county canvassing begins until the
				completion of the canvass, and strictly limited to observing and documenting
				the canvassing process.
H.
"County canvassing board"
means the board of county commissioners
				in each county, convened for the purposes of conducting the county canvass or
				the board of registration as designated by the board of county commission
				pursuant to Section
				1-13-1 NMSA 1978.
I.
"County voter file"
means the
				computerized version of the county register, comprising a portion of the
				statewide voter file.
J.
				"
Health care provider"
means an individual licensed, certified or
				permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or
				practice of a profession.
K.
"Inner envelope"
means the official envelope, prescribed by the
				secretary of state, given to the voter along with a mailed or provisional
				ballot into which the voter places the ballot after it is voted and which is
				used to preserve the secrecy of the voter's ballot.
L.
"Naked ballot"
means a
				provisional or mailed ballot that has not been placed in the inner envelope by
				the voter.
M.
"Overvoted
				ballot"
means a ballot on which the voter has selected more than the
				number of candidates to be elected for that contest, or has voted in both the
				affirmative and negative on a ballot question.
N.
"Precinct"
means a designated
				division of a county for election and redistricting.
O.
"Provisional ballot envelope"
means the official envelope, prescribed by the secretary of state, which has
				information that will identify the provisional voter, purpose the provisional
				ballot was issued and contains a sworn affidavit and a blank voter registration
				certificate, into which the provisional voter places the inner
				envelope.
P.
"Provisional
				ballot transmission envelope"
means a sealed envelope or pouch marked
				and designated by the county clerk to transmit provisional ballots from the
				polling place or alternate location to the office of the county
				clerk.
Q.
"Qualification
				process"
means the process used by a county clerk to determine the
				qualifications of a voter who voted on a provisional ballot.
R.
"Replacement absentee ballot"
means a ballot that is processed as a provisional ballot, that is provided to a
				voter whose name appears on the absentee ballot register or signature roster as
				having been issued an absentee ballot, and who has affirmed that the ballot was
				not received or voted on pursuant to the Election Code, Section
				1-6-16 NMSA 1978. The ballot shall
				be placed in a provisional ballot envelope prescribed by the secretary of state
				and processed within the timeframe specified in the Election Code, Section
				1-6-16 NMSA 1978.
S.
"Signature roster"
means a
				physical or electronic copy of a voter list with space provided opposite each
				voter's name for the voter's signature or witnessed mark.
T.
"Tally sheet"
means a form
				prescribed by the secretary of state used for the counting and tallying of
				votes cast on a ballot that has not been fed into a voting tabulator.
U.
"Undervoted ballot"
means a
				paper ballot that is not a blank ballot, and on which the voter has selected at
				least one candidate or answered at least one ballot question in accordance with
				the instructions for that ballot type, but on which the voter has selected
				fewer than the number of alternatives allowed in a candidate contest or on a
				ballot question.