I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
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Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A story by New Mexico Independent’s sister paper, the Michigan Messenger, made it all the way to MSNBC on Wednesday night.
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The Messenger reports:
The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.
The tactic loosely falls into the definition of "caging," which Common Cause describes this way:
Groups obtain registration lists, send mail to certain voters listed on it, and compile a list based on mail returned as undeliverable. They then use this list to challenge registration eligibility before the election or at the polls on Election Day through poll watchers.
It appears that vote caging may be more difficult in New Mexico than in some other battleground states. This week Common Cause’s senior researcher Tova Wang said that New Mexico had a "model" anti-caging law.
