{"id":49795,"date":"2026-11-13T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=49795"},"modified":"2026-11-13T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:39:54","slug":"some-final-election-clean-upthen-finally-moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/some-final-election-clean-upthen-finally-moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Final Election Clean-up,Then Finally Moving On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It was more than a month ago that we began dedicating our hour of public television each week to the 2026 General Election. We spent Friday after Friday speaking to the twelve candidates running in the biggest New Mexico elections, debating arguably the most consequential constitutional amendment of the bunch, and finally<\/a> taking you into the field on election night and breaking down the long-awaited and ultimately history-making results.\u00a0
Our short-staffed team dug deep to get it done and I hope you felt NMiF served you well in paying attention to and understanding how the election played out in New Mexico. But it did mean we had to set aside countless other topics and important happenings. So, we\u2019re excited to finally have the time to cast a wider net over New Mexico news \u2014 and I imagine those of you who don\u2019t find politics particularly enthralling are relieved to start hearing about well, pretty much anything else.\u00a0
And you will this week! After, forgive me, some brief clean-up on the election aisle that we felt was needed to really complete this six-week task.\u00a0
As you may know, especially if you were watching election results roll in, early voting totals from Bernalillo County \u2014 where a third of the state\u2019s voters live \u2014 were significantly delayed on election night. County Clerk Michelle Kavanaugh, by law, could have posted them as soon as polls closed at 7 p.m., but she didn\u2019t. She waited another three hours or so, until a long line at the UNM polling site, where the same-day voter registration option was particularly popular, had finally cleared, and everyone had officially cast their vote.\u00a0
The Democratic clerk received considerable pushback for her decision, including from some within her own party concerned over the implications for transparency and democracy. And with New Mexico on the brink of holding the fourth Democratic presidential primary in the country in 2028 \u2014 when far more will be anxiously awaiting the results \u2014 we wanted to hear from the clerk about why she made the decision she did and whether it\u2019s something we can expect from her when the stakes are even higher.\u00a0
And with that final election loose end tied up, we move on this week to other important topics that we\u2019ve been dying to get to. New Mexico Voices for Children\u2019s Executive Director Gabrielle Uballez comes by to talk about the organization\u2019s \u201cChildren\u2019s Roadmap<\/a>\u201d report, what it uncovered about the systems that support the well-being of New Mexico\u2019s youngest, and how the state could do better by its kids. We\u2019ll also commemorate Veterans\u2019 Day this week with a look at the state of benefits and services for New Mexico vets in the face of federal cuts and backlogs at the VA.\u00a0
Thanks for staying focused through weeks of election coverage, and for joining us tonight as we wrap it all up and start to widen our lens again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Nash Jones, Host<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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