A voter using an electronic vote tabulator system to vote shall:

A. receive a ballot issued by the precinct board [election board];

B. take the ballot to a voting booth and, with the writing utensil provided, mark it in accordance with the instructions for that ballot type; and

C. feed the ballot into the electronic vote tabulator to record the vote.

History: 1978 Comp., § 1-12-25.1, enacted by Laws 1991, ch. 105, § 30; 2009, ch. 150, § 16.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 2019, ch. 212, § 283, effective April 3, 2019, provided that references in the Election Code to "precinct board", shall be deemed to be references to "election board", as that term is defined in Section 1-1-13 NMSA 1978.

The 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, at the beginning of the sentence, after "A voter", deleted "voting on a lever type machine" and added "using an electronic vote tabulator system to vote"; deleted former Paragraph (1) of Subsection A, which required a voter to enter the machine and push the red handle; deleted former Paragraph (2) of Subsection A, which required each voter to set the pointer under the candidate's name or question on which the voter desires to vote; deleted former Paragraph (3) of Subsection A, which required the voter to make all selections and pull the red handle to record the voter's vote; deleted former Subsection B, which provided for voting on a direct recording electronic machine; in former Subsection C, deleted "A voter voting on a marksense machine shall"; in Subsection B, after "with the", deleted "pencil" and added "writing utensil"; and after "mark it", deleted "by completing the arrow to the right of the candidate's name or question on which he desires to vote" and added the remainder of the sentence; and in Subsection C, after "ballot into the", deleted "machine" and added "electronic vote tabulator".