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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 20 - Offenses and Penalties
Section 1-20-8 - False voting. (2011)
NM Stat § 1-20-8 (2013) What's This?
1-20-8. False voting. (2011)
False voting consists of:
A. voting or offering to vote with the knowledge of not being a qualified elector;
B. voting or offering to vote in the name of any other person;
C. voting or offering to vote more than once in the same election;
D. falsifying any information on an absentee ballot official mailing envelope or affixing a signature or mark other than one's own on an absentee ballot official mailing envelope;
E. inducing, abetting or procuring or attempting to induce, abet or procure a person known to not be a qualified elector to vote; or
F. inducing, abetting or procuring or attempting to induce, abet or procure a person who, having voted once in any election, to vote or attempt to vote again at the same election.
Whoever commits false voting is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-20-6, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 432; 2011, ch. 137, § 103.
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