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Making Sure Your Vote Counts

October 23, 2020

A mail ballot's return slip, with a facemask lying on top of it.

October 23, 2020 – NMiF producer Matt Grubs talks with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver about how voters should handle absentee ballots in the closing weeks of the election, as well as how county clerks will have a head start – if they take advantage of it – in counting absentee ballots, thanks to a state law that lets…

Rethinking Redistricting

September 14, 2020

Map of New Mexico, subdivided into districts.

Sept. 11, 2020 – This week we’re looking ahead to what happens when the Census count is done. State lawmakers will take those population counts and redraw district maps that could keep themselves in power for the next decade—or they could make changes that shift power into voters’ hands. Now a citizens’ task force is…