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.
Police were called to the Manzano High School polling location Tuesday after a man was reportedly intimidated voters and poll workers, according to Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver.
Toulouse Oliver said the man, who supported Republican candidates, was initially reported for…
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…
New Mexico county clerks said it was taking them hours to print out voter sign-in rosters today because of slow computers at the Secretary of State’s office. The Secretary of State IT director says the problem is being resolved, but nervous clerks are working out a Plan B just in case.
Fewer Bernalillo County residents are registering to vote this year, according to County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver. Registrations are down from 2006, in the run up to the last midterm elections, and they’re way down from 2008, when both parties…
County clerks handle the nuts and bolts of elections, so a former state elections director’s allegations of unethical behavior by Secretary of State Mary Herrera probably won’t affect the integrity of the upcoming June primary, many say. Still, some point out that there are a few areas in which the secretary of state directly impacts elections.
State Rep. Joseph Cervantes introduced a bill today that would allow people to register to vote on Election Day in New Mexico.
Under Cervantes’ House Bill 395 (which isn’t yet available online), New Mexico residents who are…
New Mexico Democrats appear to be taking Barack Obama to heart. Through Monday, more than 132,000 registered Democrats had voted early or by absentee across the state, compared to 71,187 registered Republican voters, the Secretary of State’s office reported Tuesday.
The government watchdog group Common Cause New Mexico on Wednesday questioned the claims of voter fraud made last week by state Republicans. In a press release, the nonpartisan, nonprofit government watchdog group said it “concluded that recent assertions regarding ‘undeniable proof that there was voter fraud in the June election’ are simply inaccurate. Contrary to the claims of a Republican spokesperson, the copies of registration forms that the party released to the media last week do not constitute clear evidence of ‘voter fraud in the 2008 primary in Albuquerque.’”
New Mexico Republican leaders claimed they had evidence of actual voter fraud and presented a sheaf of voter registration forms as evidence, saying that many registrants had the same Social Security numbers. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has asked the state attorney general to initiate a criminal investigation into whether the Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office may have released confidential information to the Republican Party of New Mexico, and whether the Party then publicly distributed that information in violation of state laws.
On Monday, national Republicans retreated slightly from the charges of voter fraud in New Mexico after ACORN proved some of their charges wrong over the weekend. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign said that claims of voter fraud represent “a coordinated attack by Republican surrogates from Washington all the way down to the county level in the states.” And now come signs of media pushback against the voter fraud meme.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a preliminary probe into 1,400 “potentially fraudulent” voter registration forms in Bernalillo County, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver told the newspaper she had turned over the suspicious forms to law enforcement, and said that’s proof that her office’s review of forms that are submitted to her office works.
