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 office of Secretary of State Dianna Duran says that the names of 641 dead people are still on the voter registration rolls in New Mexico.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico sued Secretary of State Dianna Duran Wednesday in the Second Judicial Court of New Mexico, alleging that she violated the state’s public records law in claiming “executive privilege” by concealing documents related to her claims of voter fraud.
Last week, I wrote about how Secretary of State Dianna Duran alleged 64,000 cases of ‘possible voter fraud’ or over 10 percent of the people who voted in the 2010 elections. Heath Haussamen of NMPolitics.com has been trying to get a hold of records showing that 37 foreign nationals voted in the 2010 elections, but has been getting the run-around.
Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran gave the State Department of Public Safety 64,000 names that she deems “possible voter fraud.” That would be more than 10 percent of the 607,700 people who voted in the 2010 elections, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Reporter Heath Haussamen of NMPolitics.net says that he has “identified several potential IPRA violations” by Secretary of State Dianna Duran’s office over requests pertaining to alleged illegal voters in New Mexico.
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…
A delay in reporting Rio Arriba County election results Tuesday night was due to a connection failure between the County’s automated election system and the Secretary of State’s office, according to County Clerk Moises Morales.
Deputy County Clerk…
There’s a lot of talk about alleged voter fraud, but it isn’t often that you see someone get convicted of trying to vote fraudulently in someone else’s name. But that’s exactly why a Santa Fe realtor is on probation, The…
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to discuss what was called ”the truth about the lies about ACORN.” ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been the target of a…
Now here’s an actual voter-fraud case being prosecuted by the office of Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez claims in a news release sent today that, “on her watch” as Doña Ana County district attorney, the county clerk “was successfully prosecuted for voter fraud — convicted of five felony counts of violating the election code.”
A look at the facts reveals a slightly more complicated situation.
It’s five days to the election, and here in New Mexico, the allegations are flying fast and hard. From the Democrats come accusations of voter suppression and intimidation, while Republicans have fired off charges of voter registration fraud and hint of serious election corruption to come. It all sounds pretty scary.
ACORN, the organization at the center of an election-year controversy, overstated earlier this month how many new voters it had registered nationwide, the New York Times is reporting.
The group enthusiastically claimed Oct. 6 that it had signed up…
While many voters (and journalists) are focused like a laser on the proverbial top of the ticket — the presidential race and New Mexico’s bevy of congressional contests currently playing out — there is a good amount of action further…
On Tuesday a spokesperson for the Democratic National Party accused Republicans of “absolute hypocrisy,” after the the owner of a company paid by the California Republican Party to register voters was arrested on fraud and perjury charges. Prosecutors are investigating whether his firm intentionally re-registered Democrats as Republicans—without their knowledge or consent. The news comes as national Republicans were already retreating from charges of voter fraud in New Mexico.
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.
Talking Points Memo’s (TPM) Muckraker division is reporting today that the Republican National Committee (RNC) may be backing off claims of voter fraud in New Mexico’s June primaries.
On an RNC conference call about New Mexico’s ACORN issues, TPM…
John McCain’s attempt to magnify allegations of voter registration fraud could undermine the impact of a Barack Obama victory and deter black Democrats from turning out to vote in future elections, some analysts are saying. But top GOP lawmakers and strategists say they believe that Democrats are trying to steal the election.
With less than three weeks left to go in the presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain is lagging somewhere around 8 points behind his Democratic challenger, Sen. Barack Obama. A New York Times poll released yesterday shows that the recent attacks by McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin have not only failed to put a dent in Obama’s lead, they’ve turned fickle independent voters against the Republican team. Now McCain has turned his attention to a specter greater than Bill Ayers: voter fraud. But those who study the issue say it is a rare occurrence inflated and used as a tool of something much more prevalent: voter intimidation and suppression.
The group that ran the largest voter-registration drive in the state this year told reporters today that safeguards already in place helped to identify many of the 1,400 cards the FBI is investigating as “potentially fraudulent.”
