Can someone help me with question about registering to vote in NM?

[A_Possum]

I'm changing my registration from Texas to NM this year (YAY! At last my vote will COUNT!).

However, I have a question. We're a regular house on a regular street (IE not rural) but we don't get mail here. We have no mailbox and any mail that comes to my street address will be sent back. And no, I can't put up a mailbox, because we are assigned to one of those multi-box things, but it's all confused and someone else has "our" box there.

So, we get our mail at a mailboxes store.

My question is, does NM give you a way to put a physical address AND a mailing address on the registration? When I looked this up online, all I could find said something about a "map" on the card if you lived in a rural area w/no physical address.

Surely this isn't that uncommon, that people recieve mail at a P.O. Box.

[comradebillyboy]

1. call the county clerk and ask

i suspect you can just go to the county courthouse and register. things are pretty loose here in the land of enchantment, we are too poor to over regulate much of anything

there is a land that we all know
it never rains, it never snows
new mexico new mexico
the god damn wind just blows and blows

they can't grow corn, they cant grow hay
they're too damn poor to move away
new mexico so fertile and rich
we think you are a honey

[A_Possum]

2. Of course I'll do that

I was just wondering if anyone happened to know off hand what the card looks like.

It's Saturday, and as you know, nobody works on the weekends around here. Carpe Manana! ;-)

[Warpy]

3. I'd suggest you contact the post office

Tell them the situation, and get the squatter evicted from "your" mailbox. It can be done. I've done it.

Another tack would be to explain the situation at the courthouse, and try to get your registration sent to General Delivery at your local post office. Theyt may go for that, since you have to present ID to get G.D. mail. I don't think they'll use mail drops.

A third method might be to get a PO Box at the post office. You can dump it after you straighten out your own situation.

I'd go with all those attempts. You need a mailbox at your residence or at least an official address. Good luck.

[A_Possum]

4. Thanks

I do have an official address, it's just not my physical address.

Just wanted to know if there was space on the registration to fill in a mailing address in addition to a physical address. I'll check on Monday, was just trying to prepare for whatever would come up.

[burrowowl]

5. Form has

Address where you live and address where you get your mail. Also place to show on a map rural address, non-street address and non-traditional place.
Library near you should have some forms, as well as MVD.

[A_Possum]

6. Thanks all, got registered today

Turned out to be a complete non-issue after all, yes they had a separate line for mailing vs physical address.

Also requested an absentee ballot.

I'm ready! Since my prior residence was Texas, THIS year I'll actually have a vote that COUNTS! I'm jazzed.