Secretary of State

Former elections chief A.J. Salazar raised concerns about the lack of a contract for the storage of voting machines at the private facility during a March 12 interview with The Independent. But chain-of-custody paperwork and regular inventories are kept for those machines and shared with the Secretary of State’s office—and it is unclear how their integrity could be compromised, AES President Terry A. Rainey told The Independent this week.

Rep. Henry “Kiki” Saavedra, D-Albuquerque told the Independent Monday that he will raise the issue  of trying to get enough money for the 2010 elections when the House and Senate meet to hammer out a budget deal.

State Senator Dianna Duran, R-Tularosa, announced Tuesday that she will be running for the office of Secretary of State. Duran turned in more than 2,000 signed petitions today when officially filing for the race. The senator is a former Otero County Clerk.

Like many in the media, I received an e-mail on Thursday from James Flores, spokesman for the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, that had nothing to do with the work of the government office that employs Flores.
The e-mail, sent from Flores’ government address, contained a news release announcing that the National Association of Latino [...]

The Roundhouse may be awash in a sea of lobbyists, but good luck finding out who they are or how much they’re spending.
NMI’s Trip Jennings reported in January that there were already 500 lobbyists and 600 lobbyist organizations registered for the 2009 session. And, he said, the secretary of state’s office expects more than 1,000 [...]

Before her confirmation hearings, Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton replied to a set of written questions from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) about specific regions and nation-states. The document provides interesting insight into how Pres.-elect Barack Obama will approach foreign policy.
For those interested in our long-standing embargo of Cuba, Clinton clearly stated that the Obama administration [...]

While Gov. Bill Richardson’s name gets bandied about for an Obama administration post, Aussie Stephen Morris, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, D.C., pooh-poohs anything smacking of “secretary of state.” Writing in the Sunday edition of The Australian, an online newspaper, he said of Richardson’s globe-trotting prowess:
Richardson, [...]

In the days leading up to today’s general election, Secretary of State Mary Herrera took care of some unfinished business. Her spokesman said late last week that Herrera entered into a contract for vote tabulator repairs and issued administrative rules regarding how to restore a felon’s right to vote as well as setting up alternative [...]