Emergency situations; paper ballots; counting and tallying procedures. A. The presiding judge and the election judges, assisted by the election clerks, shall count the number of paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator, write the number of such ballots on each copy of the certificate of returns for that polling place and place the paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator in an envelope provided for that purpose. The envelope shall not be locked in the ballot box but shall instead be transmitted directly to the county clerk for machine-tabulation or hand-tallying of the ballots. 1-12-66 Conduct Of Elections 1-12-68 B. The presiding judge and the election judges, assisted by the election clerks, shall count the number of machine-tabulated paper ballots with write-in votes, write the number of such ballots on each copy of the certificate of returns for that polling place and place those paper ballots with write-in votes in an envelope provided for that purpose. The envelope shall not be locked in the ballot box but shall instead be transmitted directly to the county clerk for manual counting of the write-in votes. C. The tallying of paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator at the polling place and the counting of ballots with write-in votes shall be in accordance with procedures prescribed by the secretary of state.
§ NMSA 1978, § 1-12-65Emergency situations; paper ballots; counting and tallying procedures
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