1-4-34. Board of registration; board of county commissioners; appointment.
A. The board of county commissioners shall, in June or July of each odd-numbered year, appoint five voters who shall constitute the board of registration for the county; provided that a county with fewer than five thousand residents as of the last federal decennial census may appoint three voters who shall constitute the board of registration for the county.
B. Members of the board of registration shall not during their service be county employees, elected officials or candidates for public office, and not more than two members of the board of registration shall be members of the same political party at the time of their appointment; provided that:
(1) a member of the board of registration shall not have changed party registration in the two years next preceding the member's appointment in such a manner that the member's prior party registration would make the member ineligible to serve on the board of registration; and
(2) a member of the board of registration shall not continue to serve on the board of registration if the member changes party registration after the date of appointment in such a manner to make the member ineligible to serve on the board of registration.
C. In the event that a position on the board of registration becomes vacant for any of the reasons described in Section 10-3-1 NMSA 1978, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a replacement who shall qualify pursuant to Subsection B of this section and serve until the expiration of the original term.
1-4-38. Board of registration; meetings.
A. All meetings of the board of registration shall be open meetings held in accordance with the Open Meetings Act [Chapter 10, Article 15 NMSA 1978].
B. All reports and other records of the board of registration shall be open to public inspection pursuant to the Inspection of Public Records Act [Chapter 14, Article 2 NMSA 1978].
C. A person's month and day of birth, and any part of a person's driver's license number or other identifier assigned by the motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department, state or federal tax identification number or social security number shall not be disclosed in any meeting or in any record of the board of registration made available to the public. This subsection does not preclude disclosure of a person's unique identifier as defined in Section 1-1-23 NMSA 1978.
D. Members of the board of registration are entitled to receive per diem and mileage as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act [10-8-1 to 10-8-8 NMSA 1978], to be paid out of the election funds appropriated to the county clerk from the county general fund.