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Improving Elections During COVID-19

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July 10, 2020 – New Mexico made it unnecessarily hard for people to vote during the June primary, UNM political science professor Gabriel Sanchez wrote in a policy brief released a few weeks after the election. But there are steps the state can and should take to improve the situation, he tells correspondent Gwyneth Doland.   Correspondent:  Gwyneth Doland   Guest:  Gabriel Sanchez, UNM professor of political science   …

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Election Debrief

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June 5, 2020 – Nearly 40 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the 2020 primary election, the majority of them by mail. With 250,000 absentee ballots to count, some counties couldn’t report results on election night. Taos County had to ask a court for an extension after its poll workers got tired and…

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