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A JOINT RESOLUTION
PROPOSING TO AMEND ARTICLE 7, SECTION 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF NEW MEXICO TO ALLOW SCHOOL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD AT THE
SAME TIME AS NON-PARTISAN ELECTIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. It is proposed to amend Article 7, Section 1
of the constitution of New Mexico to read:
"Every citizen of the United States, who is over the age
of twenty-one years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve
months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in
which the person offers to vote thirty days, next preceding
the election, except idiots, insane persons and persons
convicted of a felonious or infamous crime unless restored to
political rights, shall be qualified to vote at all elections
for public officers. The legislature may enact laws
providing for absentee voting by qualified electors. All
school elections shall be held at different times from
partisan elections.
The legislature shall have the power to require the
registration of the qualified electors as a requisite for
voting and shall regulate the manner, time and places of
voting. The legislature shall enact such laws as will secure
the secrecy of the ballot and the purity of elections and
guard against the abuse of elective franchise. Not more than