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.
The vote counting warehouse in Bernalillo County an hour before polls close
The Bernalillo County absentee vote count is nearly finished, according to Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver.
Workers and volunteers are just finishing up the last of the absentee ballots the county has already received and preparing for the rest of the ballots that will come in at 7 p.m. when the polls close. These include absentee ballots that voters brought to their polling location rather than mailing them in, and provisional ballots from polling locations around the state.
As in 2008, it appears that the early and absentee ballots cast in Bernalillo County will be probably be posted shortly after polls close.
