New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS › Part 23 - PROCEDURES FOR RECOUNTS, AUDITS, RECHECKS AND CONTESTS › Section 1.10.23.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Absentee
				ballot"
means a method of voting by mail, accomplished by a voter who is
				absent from the voter's polling place on election day. "Absentee ballot" has
				the same definition under the Absent Voter Act as a mailed ballot.
B.
"Absentee provisional ballot"
means the paper ballot issued to a provisional absentee voter.
C.
"Audit"
means a check of the
				voting systems conducted pursuant to Section
				1-14-13.2
				NMSA 1978.
D.
"Ballot"
means a paper ballot card that is tabulated on an optical scan vote tabulating
				system or hand tallied.
E.
"Contest"
means court litigation that seeks to overturn the
				outcome of an election pursuant to Sections
				1-14-1
et seq.
NMSA 1978.
F. "
County canvassing board"
means the board of county commissioners in each county.
G.
"Designated polling place"
means the voting location assigned to a voter based on that voter's residence
				within a precinct of the county.
H.
"High speed central count ballot tabulator"
means a self-contained
				optical scan vote tabulating system that uses an automatic ballot feeder to
				process ballots placed in the tabulator in any orientation. Ballots are
				processed at high speed and the tabulator has a built in sorting system to
				divert processed ballots into appropriate bins.
I.
"Observer"
means a voter of a
				county who has been appointed by a candidate, political party chair, or
				election related organization pursuant to the provisions of the Election
				Code.
J.
"Optical
				scan"
or "EVT ballot" means a ballot used on an optical scan vote
				tabulating system or EVT voting system.
K.
"Optical scan vote tabulating
				system"
or
"electronic vote tabulating (EVT) voting system"
means a voting system which records and counts votes and produces a tabulation
				of the vote count using one ballot imprinted on either or both faces with text
				and voting response areas, and includes a high-speed central count ballot
				tabulator. The optical scan vote tabulating system records votes by means of
				marks made in the voting response areas.
L.
"Overvote"
means the
				selection by a voter of more than the number of alternatives allowed in a
				voting response area.
M.
"Provisional absentee voter"
means a voter who votes on an
				absentee provisional ballot after initially attempting to vote by absentee
				ballot but whose name does not appear on the signature roster or has failed to
				meet the voter identification requirements in the Election Code.
N.
"Provisional ballot"
means a
				ballot that is marked by a provisional voter.
O.
"Provisional voter"
means a
				voter casting a provisional ballot pursuant to the provisions of the Election
				Code.
P.
"Recheck"
shall have the meaning given in Subsection A of Section
				1-1-6 NMSA
				1978.
Q.
"Recount"
shall have the meaning given in Subsection B of Section
				1-1-6 NMSA
				1978 and shall include hand recounts conducted pursuant to this part.
R.
"Recount precinct board"
means the voters of a county who are appointed by the county clerk to open,
				tabulate, tally and report absentee ballot results.
S.
"Signature roster"
means the
				certified list of voters at a polling place which is signed by a voter when
				presenting himself on election day.
T.
"Tally sheet"
means a
				document prepared by the county clerk and used for the counting of ballots that
				are electronically tabulated.
U.
"Undervote"
means the failure of a voter to select any of the
				alternatives in a voting response area.
V.
"Vote"
shall have the meaning
				given in Section
				1-1-5.2
				NMSA 1978.
W.
"Voter"
means any qualified elector or federal qualified elector who is registered
				under the provisions of the Election Code.
X.
"Voting response area"
means
				the place on a ballot where the voter is instructed to mark his preference for
				a candidate or question.