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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 a coalition of groups approve of the measure. Those groups include the League of Women Voters, AARP and the [...]

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.

A voting machine test in Santa Fe County on Friday revealed a programming error that, had it not been caught and corrected before the start of early voting on Oct. 18, would not have counted possibly thousands of straight-ticket voters, according to www.Alternet.org.