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Replacement of Absent Precinct Board Members |
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Chavez |
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SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Bill 444 requires the number of appointed absent voter precinct board members from each major political party to be as nearly equal as is practicable.
Significant
Issues
The bill amends 1-6-24 NMSA 1978 which currently states that there should be no more than two members belonging to the same political party appointed to the absent voter precinct board. This language limits the number of members (two members) per political party.
House Bill 444 permits any size absent voter precinct
board as long as the number from each major political party is nearly
equal as is practicable. The bill does
not alter the minimum requirement of three precinct board members to be
appointed to the absent voter precinct board.
The definition of major political party found in
1-1-9 NMSA 1978 is defined 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 the percent of the statewide registered voter file on the day of
the governor’s primary election proclamation.
Currently,
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