Voter Registration

ACORN uses New Mexico cases to make money plea

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 and said ACORN registered 1.3 million citizens around the nation to vote this year. That number [...]

Is universal voter registration the solution?

Although the election went relatively smoothly on Nov. 4, the voter registration process was plagued by scandal and partisan warfare in the months leading up to the vote. Now some legislators and voting rights groups want to change the way we handle voter registration, making it an automatic, universal process.

Obama registers 35,000 new voters in a month

According to a press release from the Barack Obama campaign, it has surpassed its voter registration goal for New Mexico.
Thirty days before yesterday’s voter registration deadline, the Barack Obama campaign announced an ambitious new goal: It wanted to register 30,000 new voters in just 30 days.
The campaign was even more successful than it had hoped [...]