Opinion No. 14-1274
July 13, 1914
TO: Mr. H. C. Williams, Estancia, New Mexico.
LOCAL OPTION ELECTIONS.
No registration of voters required at local option election in villages incorporated under the act of 1909.
OPINION
{*136} I am in receipt of your letter of the 12th instant in which you inquire for the opinion of this office as to whether registration of voters is required at an election for or against prohibition under the terms of Chap. 75 of the Laws of 1913. You state that Estancia was incorporated under the Act of 1909.
Sec. 2 of Chap. 75, above referred to, provides that such elections shall be conducted in the same manner as provided by law for the government of other municipal elections, and Sec. 7 of Chap. 117 of the Laws of 1909, under which Estancia was incorporated, distinctly provides that no registration of voters shall be necessary or required, and it would thus seem, if there was no registration of voters at the election held on the 10th instant, such election could not be successfully contested upon that ground.