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.
Former elections chief A.J. Salazar raised concerns about the lack of a contract for the storage of voting machines at the private facility during a March 12 interview with The Independent. But chain-of-custody paperwork and regular inventories are kept for those machines and shared with the Secretary of State’s office—and it is unclear how their integrity could be compromised, AES President Terry A. Rainey told The Independent this week.
The Associated Press has a story that looks at something that didn’t pass this year’s legislative session but might affect elections — the question of whether or not the state will pay for maintenance of New Mexico’s voting machines.
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.
