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Election Debrief

A finger with a sticker stuck to it reading "I Voted".

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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Primary Voting

Aerial view of the Santa Fe Roundhouse.

May 29, 2020 – Ahead of next week’s primary elections, correspondent Gwyneth Doland talks with Gabe Sanchez, a professor in UNM’s Political Science Department, and Heather Ferguson of Common Cause New Mexico. The state has set a record for absentee votes in a primary election. Still, there are 167 fewer polling sites on Election Day…

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