New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS
Part 36 - ELECTION FUND GRANTS, REIMBURSEMENTS AND REPORTING
Section 1.10.36.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. "Compensation for poll workers, election board members, and messengers" means the compensation to members of an election board on Election Day and members of an election board and messengers assigned to alternate voting or alternate mobile voting locations or absent voter precincts, provided that:
B. "Election equipment" means tabulators, ballot on demand systems, same-day voter registration tablets, and ancillary equipment used to cast and count votes, designed to print or to make ballots at a polling location, or considered a component of a voting system under Section 1-9-1 NMSA 1978 and includes:
C. "Eligible expenses" means expenditures necessary for conducting and administering statewide elections or post-election canvass as statutorily required by the Election Code and include:
D. "Election supplies" means supplies necessary for conducting and administering statewide elections statutorily required by the Election Code and include test decks for the purposes of certifying voting machines.
E. "Ineligible expenses" means expenditures that are not necessary and reasonable for the administration of a statewide election or post-election canvass as determined by the secretary of state.
F. "Office supplies" means consumable office supplies purchased for conducting and administering statewide elections as required by the Election Code. Such supplies are limited to items required to conduct the election and post-election canvass including paper, ballot marking pens, pencils, paperclips, staples etc.