A. Unlawful disposition of voter file consists of the willful selling, loaning, providing access to or otherwise surrendering of the voter file, duplicates of the file or a part of the file by a data processor; a data processor's agent or employee; a state or county officer; or a state or county officer's deputy, assistant, employee or agent to anyone not authorized by the Voter Records System Act to have possession of the file.
B. For purposes of this section, a file maintenance list shall be considered a voter file or a part of a voter file.
C. Any data processor, officer, deputy, assistant, agent or employee who commits unlawful disposition of a voter file is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-5-27, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 255, § 76; 2005, ch. 270, § 33.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For offenses and penalties, see 1-20-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
The 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, in Subsection A, provided that unlawful disposition of voter file includes providing access to the voter file and includes the prohibited acts by a data processor's agent or employee or a state or county officer's deputy or assistant.