New Mexico Statutes 1-9-7.10. Voting systems; ballot handling and processing requirements
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Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall:
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- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
A. accept a ballot that is a minimum of six inches wide and a maximum of twenty-two inches long, in dual columns and printed on both sides;
B. accept a ballot in any orientation when inserted by a voter;
C. have the capability to reject a ballot on which a voter has made more than the allowable number of selections in any contest;
D. be designed to accommodate the maximum number of ballot styles or ballot variations encountered in the largest New Mexico election jurisdiction;
E. be able to read a single ballot with at least four hundred twenty voting positions; and
F. tabulate as a vote only the human-readable marks in the voter response area of a ballot.