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The liberals defending ACORN's fraudulent voter registration efforts have said again and again voter registration fraud doesn't lead to voter fraud. Well, we didn't have to wait till Election Day to find out they're wrong. The Associated Press reported Friday that the New Mexico GOP found 28 people who voted fraudulently in Albuquerque during the June Democratic primary by absentee ballot. One of the ballots was cast from someone named "Duran-Duran" The GOP's review was conducted in House District 13 and only included 92 ballots. That means roughly a third of the ballots examined found by the GOP were fraudulent....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Republican Senate candidate Steve Pearce came out swinging in his first televised debate against Tom Udall, charging the Democrat with changing his position on several issues. Pearce says Udall has switched his positions on domestic oil and gas drilling and nuclear energy, gun ownership and the economy. Udall at times ignored Pearce's charges. For example, in the debate on energy policy, he spoke about his support for renewable energy, which he said would provide jobs for New Mexicans. The two also sparred over support for the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program. Udall says Pearce opposes...

On Wednesday, October 15, Congressmen Steve Pearce and Tom Udall had their first televised debate in the race for the U.S. Senate.

In an election for President of the United States in New Mexico today, 10/14/08, Democrat Barack Obama defeats Republican John McCain 52% to 45%, according to this latest SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KOB-TV in Albuquerque. Compared to identical SurveyUSA polls released two and four weeks ago, little has changed; Obama has consistently taken 52% of the vote; McCain has taken 44%, 44%, and now 45%. While overall numbers remain steady, there is some offsetting movement along age lines, with some movement toward McCain among the youngest voters, and offsetting movement toward Obama among older voters. Obama continues to need...

The Republican Arizona senator trails the Democratic Illinois senator by 5 percentage points, according to a recent poll done for the Albuquerque Journal and reported in that newspaper. Forty-five percent of voters support Obama and 40 percent support McCain, according to the poll Advertisement of more than 600 likely voters from around New Mexico. The poll was conducted Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. Two-thirds of New Mexicans said the economy was their top issue in the presidential election, according to another recent poll conducted by Research &...

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is under pressure from the UNM College Democrats and Republicans alike for allegedly registering voters illegally. According to an article in the Albuquerque Journal on Sept. 17, the Bernalillo County Clerk's Office notified prosecutors in state and federal law enforcement agencies that it had received fraudulent registration cards from ACORN. An investigation of the methods used by ACORN to register students and community members will begin once the prosecutors decide who will take the lead. Matthew Henderson, ACORN's head organizer for New Mexico, said he has not heard from prosecutors. "I have...

This lady has lived in NC for 3 years, but rec'ed a voter registration application from New Mexico. Isn't using this voter registration fraud, and isn't it also RICO since they are using the U.S. mail?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- As most states finalize voter rolls this week, Republican officials are reviving alarms about vote fraud. One of the biggest instances of suspicious registrations is here in New Mexico, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a preliminary investigation into 1,400 potentially fraudulent voter registrations in the state's most populous county. SNIP Mr. Iglesias said a task force set up after the 2004 election struggled to find a prosecutable case. In one typical example, a woman who faked registration forms "was doing it to get paid. She could not care less about the outcome of the...

Town Hall meeting at UNM Continuing Ed to be broadcast live nationally from 3-4 p.m. Sunday. PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" will hold a Town Hall meeting in Albuquerque from 3-4 p.m. Sunday that will be broadcast live nationwide from the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Auditorium, the New Mexico Independent is reporting. PBS will continue its spotlight on New Mexico through the following week, Oct. 13 through 17, with senior correspondents Ray Suarez and Judy Woodruff broadcasting from KNME studios in Albuquerque on the state's role in next month's presidential election, the Independent reported. Albuquerque is only...

The Bernalillo County Clerk's Office said Thursday it has handed over about 1,400 questionable registration cards to the FBI and is cooperating with the investigation. County officials said that number could go up since forms are still being inputted into the database. "What we try to do when we get these types of cards is we try to contact the voter," said Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver. "Often it's just an honest mistake."

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John hitting Obamba very hard right now. "Who is the real Barrack Obama"

New Mexico has been near the top of the list of “Red States” that Democrats hoped to “Turn Blue” in Election 2008 and Barack Obama is poised to do so with just over a month to go until Election Day. While John McCain was up by two points in this key southwestern state a month ago, Obama now has a 49% to 44% lead in the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. Obama is viewed favorably by 53% of New Mexico voters, McCain by 47%. As for the running mates, Delaware Senator Joe Biden gets positive reviews from...

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Secretary of State's Office can't seem to avoid controversy in choosing a new Bureau of Elections director. Just three weeks after the office's previous choice, the son-in-law of Democratic Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall, declined the job amidst a flurry of criticism, the new pick for the post has come under similar fire. Gerald Gonzalez, a Santa Fe attorney, also has connections to Udall, having worked for the congressman while Udall was New Mexico attorney general from 1995 to 1998 and later serving as Udall's chief of staff during his first term...

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SANTA FE — The New Mexico Secretary of State's Office plans to print nearly 2.5 million paper ballots for the Nov. 4 general election, although the state has only slightly more than 1.1 million voters. The reason? With a highly anticipated election less than seven weeks away that includes voting for president, an open U.S. Senate seat and three open congressional positions, the Secretary of State's Office wants to make sure each of the 1,550 precincts statewide is ready for an onslaught of voters who might or might not vote at their assigned polling places. "If we're going to err,...

Real Clear Politics says southern N.M. seat the nation's 34th most likely to change party hands. ~~snip~~ Reid Wilson and Kyle Trygstad, in their "Top House Races, Continued," have come up with part two of the 50 most competitive races for the U.S. House, and they've put the race to fill Rep. Steve Pearce's 2nd Congressional District seat at No. 34 on the list. Here's what they had to say: 34. New Mexico 02 -- OPEN -- (Pearce (R) running for Senate) -- Two candidates who have largely self-funded make this race for the most Republican seat in New Mexico...

ESPANOLA — Barack Obama recapped the nightmarish week in the U.S. economy, accused rival John McCain of being indecisive and out of touch and made a direct appeal to northern New Mexico's Hispanic voters during a sun-drenched rally here Thursday afternoon that drew thousands of backers. "We are in the midst of the most serious financial crisis in a generation — perhaps the worst since the Great Depression," Obama said on the packed Plaza de Española, where a sea of fans sporting sunglasses, sunburns and red-white-and-blue "Change" posters waited for hours to hear the Democratic presidential candidate speak. "We can't...

A new Survey USA poll is in and it shows Barack Obama back on top in the race for president in New Mexico, pulling ahead of Republican John McCain. The poll shows Obama leading McCain by 8 percentage points, 52-44. The poll indicates that Obama is leading among Hispanic voters. That’s contrary to a poll out last week. It showed the race being much tighter. "If Obama is indeed up, as this poll suggests, by 41 points among Hispanics, that is a very big change from last week and it could certainly be the difference that Obama is seeing here...

Albuquerque - Today, People for Pearce Campaign Manager John Billingsley pointed out that Tom Udall has now spent more than $1.3 million on misleading television ads only to see his 28-point lead evaporate in just over a month. "The verdict is in: Tom Udall and his friends on the extreme left are spending millions to mislead New Mexican voters about Steve Pearce and it hasn't worked," said Billingsley. "To the contrary, New Mexicans are rejecting Udall's anti-drilling, anti-nuclear, pro-tax increase policies in favor of Steve Pearce's honesty, integrity and straight forward New Mexico values." This week, a Rasmussen poll showed...