New Mexico Statutes
§ 1-14-24 — Automatic recounts; procedures
A. An automatic recount of the vote is required when the canvass of returns indicates that the margin between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for an office, the margin between those supporting and those opposing a ballot question or the margin affecting the outcome of a nonpartisan judicial retention election is less than:
(1)one-fourth percent of the total votes cast in that election:
(a)for that office in the case of a federal or statewide office;
(b)on a ballot question in the case of a state ballot question; or (c) on a nonpartisan judicial retention election in the case of the supreme court or the court of appeals;
(2)one-half percent of the total votes cast in that election:
(a)for that office in the case of a public education commissioner, district att
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Legislative History
Laws 2008, ch. 41, § 1; 2015, ch. 145, § 78; 2019, ch. 212, § 130; 2020, ch. 9, § 9;
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