New Mexicans can be confident that our election results are accurate and protected from sophisticated cyberattacks. We're committed to ensuring commonsense practices for election integrity.
Protecting our democracy from foreign or domestic attacks is not a partisan issue. In order for our government to function with legitimacy, Americans must trust in the accuracy of our elections.
Here in New Mexico, we have simple and commonsense measures in place: paper ballots, audits to confirm election results, paper back-ups of our voter registration databases, and automatic and electronic voter rolls. New Mexico also participates in Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) to share voter registration records with other participating states to keep voter rolls more accurate.
Common Cause New Mexico is dedicated to safeguarding our voting systems. To that end, we have also worked to ensure adequate funding is allocated for the Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State to conduct our elections and keep our technology up to date.
Now is the time to ensure all voters can participate in the primary elections. Semi-open primaries would afford Independent and Decline-to-State voters the ability to have a say in some of our most consequential, and publicly funded, elections -- rather than being shut out of the process and denied their right to participate fully in our democracy.
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An educational survey of candidates in New Mexico on pro-democracy issues was conducted by Common Cause New Mexico, New Mexico Open Elections, Fair Districts for New Mexico, and New Mexico First.
ELECTION DAY BACKGROUNDER ON WHAT’S OK AT POLLING PLACES AND WHAT’S NOT
Expanded early voting in NM’s 33 counties starts Saturday Oct. 19, with early polling places set to close on Saturday, Nov. 2. As Election Day approaches on Nov. 5, officials from the Attorney General (AG) and the NM Secretary of State’s (SOS) office are standing by in case of obstruction or misinformation at polling places and absentee ballot counting stations.
