The New Mexico Supreme Court took the state GOP’s side Monday in a dispute with New Mexico election officials over how broadly to expand mail-in voting for the state’s upcoming elections due to the pandemic.
If NM has an absentee ballot system, start filing for one today for the November election. No excuses.
It’s worked well in WI and needs to go national.
Don’t let the GOP disenfranchise you - they can’t win if you vote.
Most current info I could find suggests that there are 5 judges, 4 democrats and 1 republican. So not typical GOP voter ratfuckery, I guess, other than the GOP filing an objection?
This is the opportunity for our former billionaire Democratic candidates to really put their money where their mouths are…
This was an excellent strategy in WI.
More detail from yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal
Seems to be a straightforward application of statutory election law.
Fair elections suck balls. Everyone very powerfully agrees.
Yes – and said law made no provision whatsoever for a pandemic.
Quite so! That’s not a reason to ignore statutory mandates. It’s a reason to enact exceptions and exigencies, and the power to do so lies with the legislature, not the local clerk’s office.
We’ve seen the Greed-Over-People/Power/Profits in action in WI…
NonMAGA NonGOP American voters should expect this!
BUT what we NonMAGA NonGOP should do is…
Unite behind the Dem Presumptive Nom
Put aside our internal party differences
And VOTEBLUE2020~
BECAUSE our lives literally depends on stomping out the GOP majority and the Russian-Installed-Orange Megalomaniac squatting in the WH!
Anything that makes voting more difficult aligns perfectly with the Guardians Of Plutocrat’s vision of democracy, amirite?
This morning, the page with the absentee ballot online application was almost unreachable, I’m assuming from everybody hitting it at about the same time.
Ironically, so was my bank’s website. I’m guessing it was people like myself who wanted to see if they’ve gotten their “stimulus” deposits yet.
Voting is a PRIVILEGE! You have to be willing to fight, maybe even DIE, for it!
And when the Lege is unable to “enact” anything because of the pandemic preventing them from meeting, and their rules preventing them from teleconferencing until they have met to change their rules? Suicide pact! The GOP wins again!
The court’s decision does not sound wildly out of line–every voter will get an application for an absentee ballot that can be returned by mail.
But once again, we see that Republicans are on the side of war, pestilence, disease and famine. No surprise there.
Republicants simply cannot win on a level playing field, and even Resident Rump voiced this within the last week.
To win, they must suppress the vote through any tangled web of lies they can spin, and through any unethical and non-American means they can think of in their struggle to retain minority power.
Yes, it’s more susceptible to fraud, as the North Carolina GOP showed us with their recent Congressional election shenanigans. Much more susceptible than in-person voting with no ID checks (there never was significant opportunity for fraud with in-person voting in the first place).
The GOP loved mail-in voting up until 2020, because the primary users were active service members and people with vacation homes. And because they were the ones who mastered how to harvest ballots from the elderly and change their preferred candidates prior to submittal. Only now, when it seems that a large portion of the electorate will utilize mail-in balloting (and potentially increase the voter participation rate as a result) do they cry foul.
whites only voter group
fixed it
Yeah. Struck me as a ‘split the baby’ decision. You can’t just do it - but we’re going to require the state to send everyone a request to do it. Puts an interim step in the process. Not ideal - but better than Wisconsins clusterfuck
