45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

RELATING TO ELECTIONS; PROVIDING FOR A SYSTEM TO ELECT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 1-15-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1969, Chapter 240, Section 354) is amended to read:

"1-15-4. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS--ELECTION.--

A. The names of the presidential elector nominees shall not be placed upon the general election ballot; instead, the secretary of state shall certify to the county clerks the names of persons nominated by each qualified political party for the offices of president and vice president of the United States.

B. The names of [such] the nominees for president and vice president for each qualified political party shall be printed together in pairs upon the general election ballot. A vote for any [such] pair of nominees shall be a vote for the presidential electors of the political party by which [such] the nominees were named.

[C. The presidential elector nominees of the party whose nominees for president and vice president receive the highest number of votes at the general election shall be the elected presidential electors for this state, and each shall be granted a certificate of election by the state canvassing board.]

C. Beginning in 2004, presidential electors shall be elected as follows:

(1) one presidential elector shall be elected from each congressional district and two shall be elected at large;

(2) the at-large presidential elector nominees of the party whose nominees for president and vice president receive the highest number of votes statewide in the general election shall be the elected at-large presidential electors; and

(3) in each congressional district, the presidential elector nominee of the party whose nominees for president and vice president receive the highest number of votes in that congressional district in the general election shall be the elected presidential elector from that district.

D. Each presidential elector elected pursuant to Subsection C of this section shall be granted a certificate of election by the state canvassing board."