New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS
Part 20 - ADOPTION OF VOTING MACHINE STANDARDS
Section 1.10.20.9 - STANDARDS FOR "RECORDING AND TABULATING" VOTING MACHINES

A. The electronic voting machine shall be a "recording and tabulating" voting machine which has been submitted for testing and tested pursuant to Section 1-9-14 NMSA 1978.

B. The electronic voting machine shall be a computer (microprocessor) controlled direct electronic tabulation system.

C. The operating software shall be stored in a non-volatile memory "firmware" and shall include internal quality checks such as purity or error detection and/or correction codes. The firmware shall include comprehensive diagnostics to insure that failures do not go undetected.

D. The voting system shall be a battery back-up system that will, as a minimum, retain voter information and be capable of retaining and restoring processor operating parameters in the event of power failures.

E. The system shall have as a standard or as an option, software/hardware provisions for remote transmission of election results to a central location by a common carrier (telephone networks).

F. Subsistence, i.e. printer, power sources, microprocessor, switch and indicator matrices, etc., shall be modular and pluggable. Electronic components shall be mounted on printed circuit boards. The unit shall be supplied with dust and moisture-proof cover for transportation and storage purposes.

G. Specifications:

H. The system shall record and document the total time polls are open at a precinct location.

I. The system shall prevent any voter from selecting more than the allowable number of candidates for any office (no over-voting).

J. The voting machine shall be capable of operating continuously for a minimum time period of sixteen hours without external power (115 VAC).

K. The tabulation of votes on the voting machine shall be stored, ballot by ballot, in three (3) or more memory locations (separate integrated circuit chips) and shall be electronically compared throughout the election. Any differences between votes tabulated and stored in these multiple storage locations shall be detected immediately and generate an error message defining required maintenance on the voting machine before it can continue to be used in the election.

L. The entire ballot shall be visible to the voter on a single page.

M. The voting machine shall have a privacy booth in which the voter casts his vote and the privacy booth shall be an integral part of the machine.

N. The voting machine shall have a forward brace or rest that will permit a precinct official to tilt the voting .machine forward and lock the voting machine in a forward position in such a manner that it rests upon four legs or some similar stable device to permit the physically disabled voter to cast his ballot.