1-9-1. Secretary of state; duties; voting system defined.

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A. The secretary of state shall study, examine and certify all voting systems used in elections for public office in New Mexico. The secretary of state shall maintain a current list of certified voting systems and copies of filed testing and evaluation reports accessible by the public on the secretary of state's website. Only certified voting systems that are also approved for use by the secretary of state and acquired pursuant to a competitive bid process in accordance with the provisions of the Procurement Code [13-1-28 through 13-1-199 NMSA 1978] shall be used in any election for public office in New Mexico.

B. As used in Chapter 1, Article 9 NMSA 1978, "voting system" means a combination of mechanical, electromechanical or electronic equipment, including the software and firmware required to program and control the equipment, that is used to cast and count votes, and also including any type of system that is designed to print or to mark ballots at a polling location; equipment that is not an integral part of a voting system but that can be used as an adjunct to it is considered to be a component of the system.

History: 1953 Comp., § 3-9-2, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 184; 1976 (S.S.), ch. 5, § 1; 2001, ch. 233, § 1; 2010, ch. 28, § 10; 2011, ch. 137, § 69; 2023, ch. 39, § 54.