Section 1-13-22 - Post-election duties; responsibility for voting machines

After the election, the county clerk shall have custody of the voting machines. The county clerk shall furnish all necessary protection to see that the transported and stored voting machines are not tampered with or damaged. The county clerk shall take the proper action to see that the voting machines are not tampered with or damaged during the time the machines are at the polling places. History: 1953 Comp., § 3-13-23, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 325; 1971, ch. 317, § 22; 1977, ch. 222, § 81; 1991, ch. 106, § 11. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For custody of voting machines, see 1-9-12 NMSA 1978. The 1991 amendment, effective April 2, 1991, rewrote the first sentence which read 'After the election, the county clerk shall see that the voting machines are turned back to the custody of the board of county commissioners' and substituted 'county clerk' for 'board of county commissioners' in the second sentence.