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.
USA Today reported earlier today that 230,000 New Mexicans had voted through early and absentee voting. And that high number seemed to be borne out by numbers confirmed by the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office on Wednesday afternoon.
But stop the presses!
The Secretary of State’s office revised its numbers to say that the nearly 169,500 — 89,213 Democrats, 60,548 Republicans and 19,734 independents — who were listed as having voted by absentee ballot represented the number of people who had requested absentee ballots, not those who had returned them and voted by absentee.
Secretary of State spokesman James Flores said he did not know how many people had actually voted by absentee ballots. He added that the numbers for New Mexicans who had cast ballots at early voting sites– about 61,000 — was correct.
