Dear Community Member,
The statewide nonprofit organization New Mexico First is inviting nominations and self-nominations for a Redistricting Task Force. The goal of the task force is to develop recommendations to present to the N.M. Legislature on redistricting rules and processes.
Our organization is committed to cross-partisan dialogue, consensus-building, and aligned action on policy issues that impact the state. Therefore, the Redistricting Task Force will include voters, researchers, lawmakers, tribal members, and advocates who are knowledgeable about redistricting or voter rights. The task force will include people from different political parties as well as people who decline to state their party. The task force will also be racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse, including members from the sovereign Pueblos and Tribes across New Mexico.
A task force can increase cross-partisan trust in the redistricting process, reduce the contentiousness that has historically resulted in timely and costly lawsuits, and increase public confidence in the electoral process and civic institutions. The public must have faith that democracy works and that voters are choosing their elected officials rather than the perception that elected officials are choosing their voters.
The Redistricting Task Force will meet remotely every two weeks beginning September 21, 2020, from 3-5 pm, and aims to complete discussion, deliberation, and drafting of recommendations by late November. The tentative schedule, which is subject to change, includes the following online meetings:
9/21/20 3-5 pm
10/5/20 3-5 pm
10/19/20 3-5 pm
11/2/20 3-5 pm
11/16/20 3-5 pm
11/30/20 3-5 pm
Redistricting Task Force Nomination Form-Please go to https://tinyurl.com/nm-redistricting by September 5, 2020, to self-nominate or nominate someone you know!
Funding for the task force was provided through a grant from the Thornburg Foundation.
Sincerely,
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