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 last opportunity for New Mexicans to register to vote is tomorrow, October 5. And beginning tomorrow, voters can go to their county clerk’s office, request an absentee ballot, and vote on the spot.
In anticipation of the next phase of…
A report on election protection efforts in 2008 by a statewide coalition was released by Common Cause today. It reports on how the 2008 election year went in terms of ensuring that every vote counted and makes proposals for…
Just because there was no repeat of nightmare scenario like the 2000 Florida recount doesn’t mean that there weren’t systemic problems in the country’s diverse electoral systems.
At least five people in the Roswell area, all registered Democrats, received phone calls over the weekend telling them to vote on Nov.8, Carter Bundy of the New Mexico Federation of Labor and Election Protection tells NMI.
New Mexico voting rights advocates reported this morning that there have been few problems reported so far on this election day. Nationally, the McCain/Palin campaign held a conference call with reporters on the subject of vote fraud—without saying anything about any actual vote fraud. And poll workers in Albuquerque’s North Valley blame early voting for a slow day at the polls.
