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…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
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.
In 2005, there were 10,746 early and absentee votes cast in the Albuquerque mayoral race. In 2009, there were nearly twice that: 20,251 votes cast.
The other big difference in early and absentee votes between 2005 and 2009 is that in 2005, Martin Chavez won the early and absentee votes en route to an easy win in which he nearly got 50 percent of the vote. This year, Richard “RJ” Berry received over 40 percent of the early and absentee votes.
The question for the increased early and absentee votes is whether this is just a larger percentage of total voters who opted to not vote on election day or if it is a harbinger of increased voter turnout.
The total turnout in 2005 was 86,757 votes for the mayoral race; already 23.34 percent of that number have cast their votes.
