UPDATE: NM Election Reform Bills

On Tuesday, February 15th, the House Voters and Elections Committee at the NM Legislature will review a number of election reform bills that may include the Republican voter ID bill. The Committee meets at 8:30 AM in Room 305 at the Roundhouse. If you'd like to contact members of this Committee to comment on these bills, click here. A list of the bills is here. You can read copies of the bills and track them here. And of course you are encouraged to visit the committee meeting in Santa Fe.

On Wednesday, February 16, members of DFNM and NM Democratic Friends will be attending the Senate Rules Committee chaired by Sen. Linda Lopez in Room 321 at 8:30 AM as it continues its review of Senate Bills SB40 (Duran-R) and SB718 (Ortiz y Pino-D). Janet Reznick of DFNM is leading this trip and Terry Riley of NMDF is coordinating car pooling. Please contact them for more information or to sign up for the trip. Email Terry at Terryactivist@aol.com and Janet at jrez@comcast.net. The carpools will be leaving Albuquerque at 6:30 AM. You can find committee members and agendas for this committee here. Check out the recent post by Janet Reznick on this effort here.

Sometime this week, it's anticipated that Sen. Cisco McSorley will introduce a bill drafted at the request of Sonja Elison and Clo Barnaby that includes many of our most important reforms, including a requirement that voting machines provide a voter verified paper ballot. Watch for an action alert on this bill, which is expected to be introduced in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The main NM Legislature page that links to bills, committees, agendas and more is at https://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/. There's link to this on the right-hand sidebar of our website, near the top.