0001|                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 7
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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|                             LISA L. LUTZ
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0008|            FOR THE ELECTION CODE RECODIFICATION COMMITTEE
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0010|                          A JOINT RESOLUTION
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0011|     PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 7 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW
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0012|     MEXICO TO STRIKE THE RESTRICTION ON WHEN LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD
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0013|     ELECTIONS MAY BE HELD AND TO CLARIFY VOTER REQUIREMENTS.  
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0015|     BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  It is proposed to amend Article 7, Section 1
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0017|     of the constitution of New Mexico to read:
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0018|          "Every citizen of the United States who is <s>[over the age
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<s></s>0019| <s>    of twenty-one]</s> <u>at least eighteen</u> years <u>of age</u> and<u></u> <s>[has
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<s></s>0020| <s>    resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days
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<s></s>0021| <s>    and in the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty days,
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<s></s>0022| <s>    next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons and
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<s></s>0023| <s>    persons]</s> <u>who meets residency requirements, as provided by
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<u></u>0024| <u>    law, except a person determined by a court to be mentally
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<u></u>0025| <u>    incompetent or a person</u> convicted of a felonious or infamous
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0001|     crime unless restored to political rights, shall be qualified
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0002|     to vote at all elections for public officers.  The legislature
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0003|     may enact laws providing for absentee voting by qualified
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0004|     electors. <s>[All school elections shall be held at different
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<s></s>0005| <s>    times from other elections.]</s>  
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0006|          The legislature shall have the power to require the
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0007|     registration of the qualified electors as a requisite for
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0008|     voting, and shall regulate the manner, time and places of
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0009|     voting.  The legislature shall enact such laws as will secure
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0010|     the secrecy of the ballot, the purity of elections and guard
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0011|     against the abuse of elective franchise.  Not more than two
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0012|     members of the board of registration, and not more than two
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0013|     judges of election shall belong to the same political party at
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0014|     the time of their appointment."
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0015|          Section 2.  The amendment proposed by this resolution
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0016|     shall be submitted to the people for their approval or
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0017|     rejection at the next general election or at any special
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0018|     election prior to that date which may be called for that
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0019|     purpose.
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