0001| HOUSE MEMORIAL 17
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0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| JAMES G. TAYLOR
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0010| A MEMORIAL
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0011| REQUESTING THAT RESIDENTS OF ADOBE ACRES WHO ARE REGISTERED AT
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0012| PRECINCT 54 BE ALLOWED TO VOTE AT ADOBE ACRES ELEMENTARY
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0013| SCHOOL OR A SIMILAR, CONVENIENT LOCATION.
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0015| WHEREAS, the right to vote is the most fundamental and
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0016| priceless right that a citizen possesses; and
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0017| WHEREAS, the national trend is toward simplifying and
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0018| increasing voters' access to the ballot through a variety of
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0019| measures, including early voting and mail-in balloting; and
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0020| WHEREAS, occasionally the right to vote in a convenient
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0021| and easily accessible polling place is compromised by the need
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0022| to adjust the size of precincts, which should have no more
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0023| than eight hundred persons who voted there at the last general
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0024| election; and
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0025| WHEREAS, when precincts are adjusted in this manner and a
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0001| large group of voters are inconvenienced, another way should
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0002| be found to adjust the size of the voting population at the
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0003| precinct; and
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0004| WHEREAS, this precinct problem has occurred in Bernalillo
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0005| county at precinct number 54, and voters in Adobe Acres who
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0006| were previously required to vote at Adobe Acres elementary
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0007| school are no longer allowed to vote there;
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0008| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0009| REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the Bernalillo
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0010| county clerk be requested to adjust precincts in the Adobe
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0011| Acres area to allow those voters in precinct 54 who have been
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0012| inconvenienced to once again vote at Adobe Acres elementary
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0013| school or a similar convenient location; and
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0014| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0015| sent to the Bernalillo county clerk and the secretary of
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0016| state.
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