2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 2 - Election Officers and Boards
Section 1-2-9 - Election board; standby list.
A. Not less than twenty-one days prior to the date for appointing members of election boards, the county clerk shall publish a notice once in a newspaper of general circulation to the effect that election boards are to be appointed for the specified number of precincts, stating the number of persons composing each board and that applications for the standby list will be accepted at the county clerk's office.
B. The county clerk shall then compile from the individual applicants a standby list of election board members. The persons on the standby list shall have the same qualifications and comply with the same requirements as provided for election board members.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-2-9.1, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 255, § 15; 1991, ch. 105, § 3; 2019, ch. 212, § 21.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2019 amendment, effective April 3, 2019, replaced "precinct board" with "election board" throughout the section.
The 1991 amendment, effective April 2, 1991, in Subsection A, deleted "and alternates" following "precinct boards" in two places and deleted "and the number of alternates for each board" following "composing each board" near the end of the subsection.
