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.
Just over half of registered voters took part in the elections according to unofficial numbers from the Secretary of State’s office. Out of 1,152,917 registered voters in New Mexico, 598,768 voters cast ballots in this election.
That’s about the same turnout…
Although voter registration statewide has risen 5.5 percent since 2006, slightly fewer new voters are registering Republican, while Democrats’ registrations held steady.
Democrats still maintain a voter registration advantage in the state overall. Nearly half, 49 percent, of the voters…
The last opportunity for New Mexicans to register to vote is tomorrow, October 5. And beginning tomorrow, voters can go to their county clerk’s office, request an absentee ballot, and vote on the spot.
In anticipation of the next phase of…
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…
Legislation that would allow a person to register to vote then immediately cast a ballot at early voting sites require that the registration info be entered into the state online voter database on the spot so that county clerks can verify the person isn’t registered and voting elsewhere in the same election.
Nine states allow voters to register and vote on the same day; Here in New Mexico, two bills working through the Legislature would allow same-day registration at early voting sites. The New Mexico County Clerks Affiliate has endorsed the bills, as have several independent groups. But many Republicans believe it will lead to voter fraud. What do you think?
A bill that would allow voters to register and vote on the same day barely cleared the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee on Thursday. The bill’s sponsor Rep. Jim Trujillo, D-Santa Fe told the committee…
By a vote of 10-8, the House Rules and Order of Business committee voted to table House Bill 97, a measure sponsored by Rep. Dianne Hamilton, R-Silver City, that would have required voters to present photo ID at the polls.
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…
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.
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…
