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N.M. Stat. § 1-4-5.4 (2026)

Registration; form.

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A. The secretary of state shall prescribe the paper form and ensure that the certificate of
registration to be used in any county is compatible with the data processing systems. The
secretary of state shall also prescribe the form produced by an online or electronic voter
registration transaction.

    B. The certificate of registration form shall require the following elements of information
concerning the applicant for registration: name, gender, residence, municipality, post office,
county of former registration, date of birth, political party affiliation, zip code, telephone number
at the applicant's option and statement of qualification for voting. The paper form shall contain a
space for the qualified elector to provide a driver's license or state identification number issued
by the motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department or the last four digits of the
qualified elector's social security number, while the form resulting from an online or electronic
voter registration transaction shall contain the qualified elector's full social security number.

    C. Provision shall be made for the usual signature or mark of the applicant, for the signature
of the county clerk and for the dates of such signatures.

   D. The certificate form may be multipurpose by providing for an indication of whether the
certificate of registration is for a new registration, a change in the existing registration or a
cancellation of an existing registration. Provision shall be made on any multipurpose form for
entry of any existing registered information for which a change may be requested.

    E. The certificate of registration forms shall be serially numbered and shall be furnished
promptly and in adequate supply by the secretary of state upon application from the county
clerk.

   F. The secretary of state shall maintain on the secretary's website a Privacy Act notice in
conformance with the federal Privacy Act of 1974.

History: 1953 Comp., § 3-5-24, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 125; 1975, ch. 255, § 74;
1987, ch. 249, § 16; 1993, ch. 314, § 39; 1993, ch. 316, § 39; 1995, ch. 166, § 5; 2001, ch. 146,
§ 8; 1978 Comp., § 1-5-19 recompiled as § 1-4-5.4 by Laws 2011, ch. 137, § 109; 2019, ch.
212, § 48.

                                          ANNOTATIONS

Recompilations. — Laws 2011, ch. 137, § 109 recompiled former 1-5-19 NMSA 1978 as 1-4-
5.4 NMSA 1978 effective July 1, 2011.

The 2019 amendment, effective April 3, 2019, provided additional duties for the secretary of
state related to the form of certificates of registration, and required the secretary of state to
maintain a Privacy Act notice; in Subsection A, after "prescribe the", added "paper", and added
"The secretary of state shall also prescribe the form produced by an online or electronic voter
registration transaction."; in Subsection B, after "former registration", deleted "social security
number", and added the last sentence of the subsection; and added Subsection F.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2013–2013 · leading case: Convisser v. Ecoversity, 2013-NMSC-039, 4 N.M. 597.
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Convisser v. Ecoversity, 2013-NMSC-039, 4 N.M. 597. · cites it 3× “3 (2007) (providing the means of voter registration when a person lacks a physical address); NMSA 1978, § 1-4-5.4(B) (2011) (requiring that the voter registration form include an applicant’s residence); and NMSA 1978, § 1-4-17 (1993) (requiring a voter who changes addresses to…”
Convisser v. Ecoversity, 2013-NMSC-039. · cites it 4× “3 (2007) (providing the means of voter registration when a person lacks a physical address); NMSA 1978, § 1-4-5.4(B) (2011) (requiring that the voter registration form include an applicant’s residence); and NMSA 1978, § 1-4-17 (1993) (requiring a voter who changes addresses to…”
N.M. Stat. § 1-4-5.4(B): 2 cases
Convisser v. Ecoversity, 2013-NMSC-039, 4 N.M. 597. “3 (2007) (providing the means of voter registration when a person lacks a physical address); NMSA 1978, § 1-4-5.4(B) (2011) (requiring that the voter registration form include an applicant’s residence); and NMSA 1978, § 1-4-17 (1993) (requiring a voter who changes addresses to…”
Convisser v. Ecoversity, 2013-NMSC-039. “3 (2007) (providing the means of voter registration when a person lacks a physical address); NMSA 1978, § 1-4-5.4(B) (2011) (requiring that the voter registration form include an applicant’s residence); and NMSA 1978, § 1-4-17 (1993) (requiring a voter who changes addresses to…”
N.M. Stat. § 1-4-5.4(C): 1 case
Convisser v. Ecoversity, 2013-NMSC-039. “3 (2007) (providing the means of voter registration when a person lacks a physical address); NMSA 1978, § 1-4-5.4(B) (2011) (requiring that the voter registration form include an applicant’s residence); and NMSA 1978, § 1-4-17 (1993) (requiring a voter who changes addresses to…”
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