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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 1 — Elections · Article 2 — Election Officers And Boards

1-2-30. Watchers and election observers; penalty.

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The act of denying a watcher or an election observer, who has presented a written appointment to the precinct board [election board] and who is not interfering with the orderly conduct of the election, the right to be present at the polling place or denying a watcher or election observer the right to witness the precinct board [election board] in the conduct of its duties is a petty misdemeanor.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-2-28, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 49; 2011, ch. 137, § 27.
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