2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Section 6B Uniform Military and Overseas Voters
Section 1-6B-2 Definitions.

1-6B-2. Definitions.

As used in the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act:

A. "appropriate clerk" means a county clerk for elections conducted pursuant to the Election Code and a municipal clerk for elections conducted pursuant to the Municipal Election Code [Chapter 3, Articles 8 and 9];

B. "federal postcard application" means the application prescribed under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act;

C. "federal write-in absentee ballot" means the ballot approved pursuant to the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act;

D. "military-overseas ballot" means:

(1) a federal write-in absentee ballot; or

(2) a ballot sent to a federal qualified elector by the appropriate clerk and cast in accordance with the provisions of the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act;

E. "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; and

F. "United States", used in the territorial sense, means the several states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

History: Laws 2015, ch. 145, 26.