0001|                       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 66
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           MANNY M. ARAGON
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO DIRECT THE
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0012|     APPROPRIATE INTERIM LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE
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0013|     FEASIBILITY AND ADVISABILITY OF ESTABLISHING MULTIPARTY
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0014|     NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTIONS.
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0015|     
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0016|          WHEREAS, nine states have election codes that provide for
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0017|     candidates for elective office to be nominated by more than one
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0018|     party; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, the eighth circuit court of appeals has struck
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0020|     down laws in five additional states that prohibited multiparty
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0021|     nominations; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, multiparty nominations allow smaller parties to
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0023|     have a greater presence in elections than might otherwise be
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0024|     the case; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, multiparty nominations allow major parties the
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0001|     option of accepting nonmembers into their primary election
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0002|     process; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, candidates who receive multiple party nominations
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0004|     may appear more than once on the ballot;
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0005|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0006|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico legislative council be
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0007|     requested to direct the appropriate interim committee of the
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0008|     legislature to study the potential benefits and consequences of
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0009|     amending the Election Code to allow multiparty nominations; and
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0010|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the appropriate committee
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0011|     report its findings and recommendations to the second session
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0012|     of the forty-third legislature; and
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0013|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0014|     transmitted to the members of the New Mexico legislative
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0015|     council.
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