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National Political Party Convention Delegates |
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Secretary
of State (SOS)
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SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Bill 1039 amends
and adds a section of the Election Code to permit political parties to select
presidential candidates by primary election or according to the selection
procedures of their party.
The bill provides that
if a major political party chooses not to participate in the
presidential primary, the party is required to notify the secretary of state at
least 30 days before the governor is to issue the proclamation of the primary
election. The state chairman of a major
political party that does not participate in the presidential primary is
further required to certify to the secretary of state the names of the state
party’s delegates to the party’s national convention and those delegates are
required to file a declaration of acceptance.
A major political
party is defined in Section 1-1-9 NMSA 1978 as “any qualified political party
any of whose candidates received as many as five percent of the total number of
votes cast at the last preceding general election for the office of governor, or
President of the United States, as the case may be and whose membership totals
not less than one-third of one percent of the statewide registered voter file
on the day of the governor’s primary election proclamation.”
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
1. Should the selection
procedures chosen by a party be approved by the Secretary of State?
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