N.M. Stat. § 1-20-16

Current through 2024, ch. 69
Section 1-20-16 - Electioneering too close to the polling place
A. Electioneering too close to the polling place consists of any form of campaigning within:
(1) one hundred feet of the building in which the polling place is located on election day when voting at a school, church or private residence; and
(2) one hundred feet of the door through which voters may enter to vote at the office of the county clerk, an alternate voting location, a mobile voting site or any location used as a polling place on election day that is not a school, church or private residence.
B. Electioneering includes the display or distribution of signs or campaign literature, campaign buttons, t-shirts, hats, pins or other such items and includes the verbal or electronic solicitation of votes for a candidate or question.
C. Whoever commits electioneering too close to the polling place is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

NMS § 1-20-16

1953 Comp., § 3-20-14, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 440; 2011, ch. 137, § 104.
Amended by 2011, c. 137,s. 104, eff. 7/1/2011.