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 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…
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…
Disruptive Republican poll challengers at six precincts in Doña Ana County have been “reprimanded” and warned that they will be removed from polling precincts if they continue to behave inappropriately, Doña Ana County Deputy Clerk Mario O. Jimenez III told…
Federal agents told to ‘back off’ after crowding Acoma voters
The League of Women Voters has comprehensive guide to the election, including profiles of the candidates and the races. We’ve got it embedded here:
More than 200,000 New Mexicans chose to cast their ballots early this year according to the Secretary of State’s office. That’s a much higher early vote turnout than the last midterm election, in 2006, when about 132,500 people cast early ballots.…
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…
The U.S. Justice Department has announced it will send agents to monitor some polling places in Texas after tea party and Republican Party-certified poll challengers allegedly harassed dozens of early voters and poll officials.
Tea party activists are fanning out across…
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Republicans in Bernalillo County voted early at a higher rate than Democrats in this election.
But there are more registered Democrats in the state’s largest population center and more of them voted early: 39,703 Democrats and 31,223 Republicans voted early.…
Republican Party operatives from Texas have been training Albuquerque tea party activists as poll challengers for more than two weeks, GOP officials told The Independent Wednesday evening. The Democrats are training challengers of their own. But such “ballot security” efforts do more harm than good, a new study suggests, rarely catching fraudulent voting but frequently discouraging legitimate voters from casting ballots.
We thought it was just New Mexico. But it’s also Illinois, California, Nevada.
New Mexico’s next governor faces several challenges once she takes office, but none is bigger than the state budget. But with one day to go in a negative gubernatorial election neither Republican Susana Martinez nor Democrat Diane Denish has presented exactly what can be called a comprehensive, detailed plan to address the challenge. Instead they’ve made vague promises: no raising taxes during the first year, no cuts to K-12 education or Medicaid, programs that represent more than half the state budget.
Turns out, New Mexico isn’t unique. Candidates running for governor in several states, including those mentioned above, are adopting similar strategies, according to the Associated Press. More …
Republican Susana Martinez leads Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish by 10 points in New Mexico’s governor’s race according to the latest Albuquerque Journal poll. Martinez’s increased lead appears to come from her ability to woo many previously undecided voters…
We are very excited to bring you our biggest and best-ever election day coverage this Nov. 2, including an extraordinary live blog in partnership with our colleagues at The Santa Fe New Mexican, which will launch at 9 a.m.…
A Democratic PAC is sending a mailer to New Mexico voters that appears to urge them not to vote for a little-known write-in candidate because he is too conservative. But it actually appears to be an attempt to convince tea…
President Barack Obama has recorded a telephone message that will be used to target infrequent Democratic voters and 2008 Democratic voters in New Mexico, according to a press release from the Denish campaign.
“Two years ago you stood with me…
Because of the increase in early and absentee voting, The Associated Press will no longer report vote totals as “precincts reporting,” Hotline On Call reports. Instead, the AP will report election results with percentages of the “expected vote.”
“Some counties,…
Susana Martinez has raised more money than Diane Denish has in the last few weeks—but she’s spent more, too.
Martinez raised $1.07 million and spent $2.1 million in the period that ran from October 5 to October 26. Denish raised…
