1-9-7.10: Voting systems; ballot handling and processing requirements.

Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall:

A. accept a ballot that is a minimum of six inches wide and a maximum of twenty-two inches long, in dual columns and printed on both sides;

B. accept a ballot in any orientation when inserted by a voter;

C. have the capability to reject a ballot on which a voter has made more than the allowable number of selections in any contest;

D. be designed to accommodate the maximum number of ballot styles or ballot variations encountered in the largest New Mexico election jurisdiction;

E. be able to read a single ballot with at least four hundred twenty voting positions; and

F. tabulate as a vote only the human-readable marks in the voter response area of a ballot.