New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS
Part 7 - RANDOMIZATION OF CANDIDATE NAMES ON BALLOTS
Section 1.10.7.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Alphabet" means the 26 Roman typeface letters of the standard alphabet used in the United States, without differentiation between upper case and lower case version of each letter.

B. "Auditor" means an auditor qualified by the state auditor to audit state agencies.

C. "Candidate name" and "candidate's name" means the name listed on the candidate's certificate of registration in conformance with the requirements of Subsection (A) of Section 1-10-8 NMSA 1978 and disregarding any punctuation forming a part of a candidate's name; provided that in the case of a ticket for the offices of president and vice president or of governor and lieutenant governor in a general election, only the name of the presidential or gubernatorial candidate is considered and the name of the vice presidential or lieutenant gubernatorial candidate is disregarded.

D. "Election cycle" the biennial time period described in Subsection (A), of Section 1-1-3.1, NMSA 1978.

E. "First name" means a candidate's given name or forename as listed on the candidate's certificate of voter registration.

F. "Letter" means each of the 26 graphemes of the contemporary alphabet used in the United States: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z; provided that in the case of any of the letters specified in this definition to which a diacritic is applied, the diacritic is disregarded; and provided further that in the case of a digraph, each grapheme forming the digraph is considered a separate letter.

G. "Last name" means a candidate's surname or family name as listed on the candidate's certificate of registration in conformance with the requirements of Paragraph (1), of Subsection (A), of Section 1-10-6 NMSA 1978; the term includes a mononym in the case of a person with a single name.

H. "Middle name" means the initial, initials, name or names as listed on a candidate's certificate of registration in addition to a candidate's first and last names; the term includes a nickname or pseudonym, but does not include honorific, academic or elected titles.

I. "New Mexico election alphabet" means a version of the alphabet in which all letters have been randomized pursuant to this rule.

J. "Secretary" means the secretary of state.