{"data":{"id":"us-nm/1-9-7.10","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"1-9-7.10","heading":"Voting systems; ballot handling and processing requirements.","body":"Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall:\nA. 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;\nB. accept a ballot in any orientation when inserted by a voter;\nC. have the capability to reject a ballot on which a voter has made more than the allowable number of selections in any contest;\nD. be designed to accommodate the maximum number of ballot styles or ballot variations encountered in the largest New Mexico election jurisdiction;\nE. be able to read a single ballot with at least four hundred twenty voting positions; and\nF. tabulate as a vote only the human-readable marks in the voter response area of a ballot.","path":["Chapter 1 - Elections","ARTICLE 9 Voting Machines"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18502/index.do","current_through":"2026-05-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"92c30817591f724cad0b4afc8ee35178172e4b582e99c3677e6dd606c1470ac5","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/1-9-7.9","next":"us-nm/1-9-7.11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}