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Police have been called to remove two Republican poll challengers in Las Cruces for being disruptive according to NMPolitics.net.
This comes hours after The Independent reported on Republican poll challengers being warned by the Doña Ana County clerk’s office. It is unclear if the incidents are related.
NMPolitics.net reported:
At precinct 25, a poll challenger was picking up poll workers’ materials and “throwing them down on the table” while being disruptive, Jimenez said. And at precinct 69, he said a poll challenger was “yelling in the polling place” and accusing the presiding judge of tampering with an absentee ballot when the judge was simply sealing the ballot according to procedure.
