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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There have been very few reports of disruptions at New Mexico polling stations, Common Cause NM Executive Director Steven Robert Allen told The Independent at 9:25 a.m. Tuesay.
“Just isolated events so far — nothing big,” Allen said. “At El Dorado Elementary in Santa Fe, one gentleman, a poll official, was asking everybody for identification. That’s been corrected.”
Separately, at Bellaire Elementary School (Bernalillo County Precinct 444), voters had to use provisional ballots until a precinct judge arrived, Allen reported. The precinct judge was late because of car trouble. Allen did not know the number of voters who had to cast provisional ballots at that voting location.
Voters who encounter trouble at the polls should call the Count Every Vote NM hotline at 866-687-8683, Allen said.
