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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 11
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TH LEGISLATURE
- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
FIRST SESSION
, 2025
INTRODUCED BY
Linda M. Trujillo and Gail Armstrong and David M. Gallegos
A JOINT RESOLUTION
PROPOSING TO AMEND ARTICLE 7, SECTION 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
NEW MEXICO TO PERMIT SCHOOL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD AT THE SAME
TIME AS PARTISAN ELECTIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. It is proposed to amend Article 7, Section 1
of the constitution of New Mexico to read:
"A. Every person who is a qualified elector
pursuant to the constitution and laws of the United States and
a citizen thereof shall be qualified to vote in all elections
in New Mexico, subject to residency and registration
requirements provided by law, except as restricted by statute
either by reason of criminal conviction for a felony or by
reason of mental incapacity, being limited only to those
persons who are unable to mark their ballot and who are
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concurrently also unable to communicate their voting
preference. The legislature may enact laws providing for
absentee voting by qualified electors. [All school elections
shall be held at different times from partisan elections. ]
B. The legislature shall have the power to require
the registration of the qualified electors as a requisite for
voting and shall regulate the manner, time and places of
voting. The legislature shall enact such laws as will secure
the secrecy of the ballot and the purity of elections and guard
against the abuse of elective franchise. Not more than two
members of the board of registration and not more than two
judges of election shall belong to the same political party at
the time of their appointment."
SECTION 2. The amendment proposed by this resolution
shall be submitted to the people for their approval or
rejection at the next general election or at any special
election prior to that date that may be called for that
purpose.
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