§ NMSA 1978, § 1-9-21(untitled)

Systems designed to print ballots at polling locations; security
requirements.
Systems designed to print ballots at polling locations shall provide the security capabilities for
ballot preparation and shall be capable of:
A. providing a full audit trail of individual voter activity;
B. providing full ballot production audit logs for all activity, including absentee voting by
mail, in-person absentee voting, early voting, provisional voting and spoiling ballots;
C. creation and preservation of an audit trail of every ballot issued, including during a period
of interrupted communication in the event of loss of network connectivity;
D. suitable security passwords at user, administrator and management levels;
E. preventing the modification of ballot formatting by polling place users; and
F. retaining full functionality and capability of printing ballots during a period of interrupted
communication in the event of loss of network connectivity.