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Voting & Elections 09.9.2020

Report: Native American vote suppressed by pandemic

After the COVID-19 pandemic ripped through Indian Country in New Mexico this spring, voter turnout among Native Americans declined while the rest of the state experienced an unprecedented boost in voting during the presidential primary, according to a new report from Common Cause New Mexico.

Voting & Elections 09.8.2020

Report: Primary turnout plunged in Native precincts

A new report by Common Cause New Mexico outlines the damage to Native American turnout in the June 2 election. It found that turnout in Native American precincts fell by 1 percentage point in the 2020 primary election, compared with four years earlier, even as voter participation surged by 8 points throughout the state as a whole.

Voting & Elections 08.25.2020

Native Voter Survey and Report

Common Cause New Mexico released a report examining Native American voter participation in the 2020 Primary, as well as in elections of 2012 and 2016. The report was based on information from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office and an informal survey of Native American voters throughout New Mexico conducted in July and August 2020.

Trump’s Unconstitutional Attempt to Erase Immigrants In Census Data Hurts New Mexicans’ Future

"...When New Mexican communities are missing from the census, resources and political power for our communities get assigned to somewhere else — somewhere that already has more money, more privilege, and more power." - CCNM's Sydney Tellez.

Voting & Elections 07.21.2020

America has Lost a Hero with the Passing of Rep. John Lewis

Statements from Common Cause Georgia & Common Cause

Voting & Elections 07.20.2020

Native Americans faced difficulties voting in primary

Many members of the Acoma Pueblo and other tribes across the state faced significant barriers when trying to vote during the 2020 primary.

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