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New Mexico Regulations § 1.10.7.8 CREATION OF THE NEW MEXICO ELECTION ALPHABET

Up to Part 7: Randomization of Candidate Names on Ballots

Regulation Text

A. Between the day of a general election and the last day of that calendar year, the auditor shall publicly create a randomization of the alphabet utilizing a method in which each letter not yet selected has a statistically equal chance of being the next letter selected.
B. The secretary shall post notice on the secretary's website at least one week in advance, providing the day, time and place of the randomization of the alphabet.
C. The randomized alphabet created by the auditor shall be the New Mexico election alphabet for the next election cycle.
D. By January 10th of each odd-numbered year, the secretary shall post the New Mexico election alphabet. The agency website shall contain the current New Mexico election alphabet and an archive of all previous New Mexico election alphabets.

History

3/15/97; Recompiled 11/30/01, Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXI, Issue 04, February 25, 2020 , eff. 2/25/2020

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