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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.
Secretary of State Mary Herrera‘s office will begin field training sessions this week for candidates and campaign officials who are struggling with the state’s new Campaign Finance Information System.
Dozens of candidates missed the April 5 deadline for filing campaign finance reports. The next reports are due by 5 p.m. May 10 and late reporting will result in fines, Herrera pledged earlier this month.
The first sessions will be held 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Farmington’s San Juan Community College, Friday, according to Elections Director Don Francisco Trujillo.
“We want people to call us and reserve a spot,” Trujillo said. “Local colleges have computer labs they can lend to us for this, because we don’t have the money for our own. But we don’t want to run out of spots. We’ll schedule an additional afternoon session if need be.”
Training will be offered next week in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, though the day has not yet been set, Trujillo said.
Next Friday, training sessions will be held in Las Cruces, Roswell or Clovis (but not all three places), Trujillo said.
The SOS is still scrutinizing candidates’ lists to see whether everybody who should have filed for April has done so, Trujillo said.
Extensions will not be offered as they were for the April 12 deadline for the first campaign finance reports, Trujillo said.
The only possible exception will be literal life-and-death emergencies, he said.
“The system will time stamp each report electronically this time,” Trujillo said. “If it comes in at 5:01 p.m., you’re a day late and will be fined $50 a day until it’s in.”
