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…
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…
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…
As the AP reports today, a voter intimidation lawsuit brought by the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) was recently dismissed by U.S. District Judge William Johnson because it failed to establish that there was an “imminent harm” to…
The controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) used two cases from New Mexico in a fundraising e-mail sent out Thursday afternoon to supporters.
A field director in ACORN’s voter registration program, Mouath B. Baesho, wrote the e-mail…
US District Judge William P. Johnson declined today to issue a restraining order against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero, but the voter intimidation case continues.
After moving courtrooms and switching judges several times Monday, US District Judge William P. Johnson heard arguments in a case brought against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). Several interesting…
A local private investigator says he was contacted by a man recruiting on behalf of the Republican National Committee, looking for private investigators to advise poll challengers on election day. The investigator, David O’Niell, says he’s worried that RNC may be using private investigators to help with so-called vote caging, a method of vote suppression.
A third plaintiff, Francine Gonzales, has now joined a federal lawsuit accusing two Republican operatives of voter intimidation. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Martha Vázquez will conduct a hearing to consider the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s request for a temporary restraining order against Republican attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al Romero.
