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Section 1-12-34 - Conduct of election; copies of election return certificates.

NM Stat § 1-12-34 (2019) (N/A)
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Upon completion of the certificate of returns, the presiding judge shall deliver all returns to the county clerk on election night with the exception of the one legible copy from each voting machine posted on the outside of the entrance door to the polling place.

History: 1953 Comp., § 3-12-58, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 294; 1991, ch. 105, § 33.

The 1991 amendment, effective April 2, 1991, rewrote this section which read "Upon completion of the certificate of returns, the presiding judge shall deliver upon demand, one copy thereof to a representative of each political party present, bearing the precinct board signatures, the same as on the original. The presiding judge shall also post one signed copy of the certificate in the polling place. Certified copies of the certificate may be taken and used as evidence in all cases the same as the original certificate. The secretary of state shall supply printed forms of such additional certificates."

ANNOTATIONS

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 26 Am. Jur. 2d Elections § 400.

29 C.J.S. Elections § 237(4).

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