Voting systems certified for use in state elections shall:A. accept a ballot that is a minimum of six inches wide and a maximum of twenty-two inches long, in dual columns and printed on both sides;B. accept a ballot in any orientation when inserted by a voter;C. have the capability to reject a ballot on which a voter has made more than the allowable number of selections in any contest;D. be designed to accommodate the maximum number of ballot styles or ballot variations encountered in the largest New Mexico election jurisdiction;E. be able to read a single ballot with at least four hundred twenty voting positions; andF. tabulate as a vote only the human-readable marks in the voter response area of a ballot. History: Laws 2010, ch. 28, § 8; 2023, ch. 39, § 56. ANNOTATIONSThe 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, reduced the maximum ballot size that voting systems must accept to be certified, and clarified that only human readable marks shall be tabulated; in Subsection A, after 'maximum of', deleted 'twenty-four' and added 'twenty-two'; and added Subsection F.
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