[LWVNM Action] EAC session today-see attached.

[Barbara Calef]

So, would the new bill make it easier for ex-felons to register?

Barbara

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 4:50 PM Renny Ashleman <ashlemanr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check this link. Scroll down.
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> https://portal.sos.state.nm.us/ovr/webpages/Eligibility.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 14, 2022, at 4:34 PM, Judy Williams <jkwilliams24 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> NM statute:
>
> A. Every person who is a qualified elector pursuant to the constitution
> and laws of the United States and a citizen thereof shall be qualified to
> vote in all elections in New Mexico, subject to residency and registration
> requirements provided by law, except as restricted by statute either by
> reason of criminal conviction for a felony or by reason of mental
> incapacity, being limited only to those persons who are unable to mark
> their ballot and who are concurrently also unable to communicate their
> voting preference. The legislature may enact laws providing for absentee
> voting by qualified electors. All school elections shall be held at
> different times from partisan elections.
>
> B. The legislature shall have the power to require the registration of the
> qualified electors as a requisite for voting and shall regulate the manner,
> time and places of voting. The legislature shall enact such laws as will
> secure the secrecy of the ballot and the purity of elections and guard
> against the abuse of elective franchise. Not more than two members of the
> board of registration and not more than two judges of election shall belong
> to the same political party at the time of their appointment. (As amended
> November 7, 1967, November 4, 2008, November 2, 2010, and November 4, 2014,
> as directed by N.M. Supreme Court Order No. S-1-SC-35524, approved
> September 21, 2016, in State of N.M. ex rel. League of Women Voters of
> N.M. v. Advisory Comm. to the N.M. Compilation Comm'n, 2017-NMSC-025
> <https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&originatingContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&pubNum=0004616&refType=RP&originatingDoc=I066003110d3711ebaba3b38e9b23e57a&serNum=2042304959>
>  .
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 4:31 PM Barbara Calef <bfcalef at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Barbara
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 4:21 PM Renny Ashleman <ashlemanr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> One more try. I dropped a line. Oppo claims bill let’s ex felons vote as
>>> if that isn’t current law. Sorry. It’s been  long day.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 4:18 PM, Renny Ashleman <ashlemanr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Process for ex felons to vote is cumbersome
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 3:52 PM, Barbara Calef <bfcalef at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> Renny,
>>>
>>> Did you mean this? Example new bill allows felons to vote-that’s
>>> current law. Just cumbersome.
>>> I thought current law allows ex-felons to vote.  I know the procedure
>>> for an ex-felon to register is cumbersome.
>>>
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:40 PM Renny via Action <
>>> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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