Section 3-8-77 - Electioneering too close to polling place; obstructing polling place; disturbing polling place; penalty. - New Mexico Statutes

3-8-77. Electioneering too close to polling place; obstructing polling place; disturbing polling place; penalty.

A.     Electioneering too close to the polling place consists of any form of campaigning on election day within one hundred feet of the building in which the polling place is located and includes but is not limited to the display of signs, bumper stickers or distribution of campaign literature.   

B.     A person who commits electioneering too close to the polling place is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.   

C.     Obstructing the polling place consists of:   

(1)     approaching nearer than fifty feet from any polling place during the conduct of the election with the intention of knowingly interfering with the legal conduct of the election; or   

(2)     willfully blocking an entrance to the polling place so as to prevent free ingress and egress.   

D.     A person who obstructs the polling place is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.   

E.     Disturbing the polling place consists of doing one or more of the following acts in the building in which the polling place is located or outside the building in which the polling place is located on election day:   

(1)     any act which knowingly interferes with or impedes the legal conduct of the election or the legal performance of any election official's duties or any act which unintentionally causes such result if such act is continued after an election judge orders a person to cease and desist such activity; or   

(2)     any act which knowingly interferes with or impedes a person's right to cast a vote in quiet, secret and orderly surroundings or any act which unintentionally causes such result if such act is continued after an election judge orders a person to cease and desist such activity.   

F.     A person who disturbs the polling place is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.