New Mexico Statutes
§ 1-1-6 — Recheck and recount
As used in the Election Code [Chapter 1 NMSA 1978]: A. "recheck" pertains to electronic vote tabulating systems and means a verification procedure whereby a printout of the electronic record of votes cast in an election is made from each electronic memory device in the electronic vote tabulating system and the results are compared with the results shown on the official returns; and B. "recount" pertains to all paper ballots, including absentee ballots, provisional paper ballots, optical scan paper ballots and any other paper ballot and means a verification procedure whereby the voters' selections for an office are retallied and the results compared with the results shown on the official returns.
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Legislative History
1953 Comp., § 3-1-5.1, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 222, § 1; 2005, ch. 270, § 8; 2007,
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§ 1-1-1
Election Code§ 1-1-1.1
Purpose of [Election] Code§ 1-1-10
Qualified political party§ 1-1-11
Precinct§ 1-1-12
Consolidated precinct§ 1-1-13
Election board§ 1-1-14
Publication§ 1-1-15
Posting§ 1-1-16
Registration officer§ 1-1-16.1
Registration agent§ 1-1-16.2
New registrant§ 1-1-18
Oath includes affirmation§ 1-1-19
Elections covered by code§ 1-1-2
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