2016 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 22 - School Election Law
Section 1-22-15 - Canvassing board; duties.

1-22-15. Canvassing board; duties.

A. The canvassing board for the canvass of the results of a school district election shall be composed of the superintendent, the county clerk of record who is the proper filing officer and the magistrate or the presiding judge of the metropolitan court, as the case may be, of the county in which the administrative office of the school district is situate.

B. Ballots cast in each county in which the school district is situate shall be transported by the presiding judge of the precinct board upon the closing of the polls to the office of the proper filing officer. Each ballot box shall have two locks. The key to one lock on each ballot box when emergency ballots are used and one copy of the signature roster shall at that time be placed in a stamped, addressed envelope provided for that purpose and shall be mailed to the magistrate or the presiding judge of the metropolitan court, as the case may be, of the county in which the administrative office of the school district is situate. If emergency ballots are not used, both ballot box keys shall be returned to the proper filing officer.

C. Within three days after the date of the school district election, the canvassing board shall meet in the office of the proper filing officer or the administrative office of the school district as determined by the proper filing officer and shall:

(1) canvass the returns in the same manner as county election returns are canvassed;

(2) determine the total number of persons in the school district voting in the election; and

(3) issue a certificate of canvass of the results of the election and send one copy of the certified results:

(a) to the board;

(b) to the secretary of state; and

(c) to the proper filing officer to be filed in his office.

D. The canvassing board shall issue a certificate of election to each candidate which it determines to be elected.

E. The county clerk of record shall cause the results of the election to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district.

History: 1978 Comp., 1-22-15, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 168, 17; 1987, ch. 249, 49; 1987, ch. 338, 3.