Gerrymandering/Redistricting

Mark your calendars for citizen trainings in English and Spanish on the map-making software, DistrictR, and the first-round of public meetings and hearings by the Citizen Redistricting Committee to hear input on communities of interest and accept map submissions.

With a new round of redistricting set to take place, states like New Mexico have a chance to end a practice that has long distorted our democracy.

Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the US, is now a federal holiday, and we urge you to celebrate and reflect on racial justice.

The Supreme Court requires state- and local governments to update their electoral districts once per decade to ensure that each district contains the same population, which gives each resident equal representation in government. However, the U.S. Census Bureau counts people where they are incarcerated, not where they are from, so when jurisdictions rely on raw Census data which does not reflect their real populations, democracy suffers.

In the final hours of the NM Legislative Session, several CCNM priority bills were passed, including SB 160 Judicial Public Financing, SB 304 Independent Redistricting, HB 231 Native American Polling Places, and HB 55 Capital Outlay Transparency! That, coupled with many wins earlier in the NMLEG, are detailed in our final Democracy Wire of the session!