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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 1 — Elections · Article 14 — Contests And Recounts

1-14-8. Impounding ballots; ballots defined.

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As used in Sections 1-14-9 through 1-14-12 NMSA 1978, "ballots" includes tally sheets, registration certificates, paper ballots, absentee ballots, statements of canvass, absentee ballot applications and absentee ballot registers, but does not include voting machines.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-14-16, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 249, § 1; 1987, ch. 249, § 44; 1987, ch. 327, § 17; 1991, ch. 105, § 39; 1993, ch. 314, § 57; 1993, ch. 316, § 57.
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