Section 1-9-1 - Secretary of state; duties; voting system defined.
1-9-1. Secretary of state; duties; voting system defined.
A. The secretary of state shall study, examine and certify all voting systems used in elections for public office in New Mexico. The secretary of state shall maintain a current list of certified voting systems and copies of filed testing and evaluation reports accessible by the public on the secretary of state's web site. Only voting systems certified by the secretary of state and acquired pursuant to a competitive bid process in accordance with the provisions of the Procurement Code [13-1-28 NMSA 1978] shall be used in any election for public office in New Mexico.
B. As used in Chapter 1, Article 9 NMSA 1978, "voting system" means a combination of mechanical, electromechanical or electronic equipment, including the software and firmware required to program and control the equipment, that is used to cast and count votes; equipment that is not an integral part of a voting system, but that can be used as an adjunct to it, is considered to be a component of the system, including any type of system that is designed to print or mark ballots at a polling location.