[Lwvcnmtopics] League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico Updates

Thu Jun 25 13:55:16 MDT 2020

SB4 that is on the Governor's desk calls for consultation with the tribes on how voting at voting centers in tribal lands will be conducted.

Dick Mason

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From: Leora Jaeger-Siegel <leora50 at comcast.net>
To: 'Linda Adcox-Kimmel' <kimmel.linda9 at gmail.com>; kwentworth17 at comcast.net
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Sent: Thu, Jun 25, 2020 1:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Lwvcnmtopics] League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico Updates

#yiv5316627483 #yiv5316627483 -- _filtered {} _filtered {} _filtered {} _filtered {}#yiv5316627483 #yiv5316627483 p.yiv5316627483MsoNormal, #yiv5316627483 li.yiv5316627483MsoNormal, #yiv5316627483 div.yiv5316627483MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;}#yiv5316627483 a:link, #yiv5316627483 span.yiv5316627483MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv5316627483 pre {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:10.0pt;}#yiv5316627483 span.yiv5316627483HTMLPreformattedChar {font-family:Consolas;}#yiv5316627483 span.yiv5316627483EmailStyle21 {font-family:sans-serif;color:windowtext;}#yiv5316627483 .yiv5316627483MsoChpDefault {font-family:sans-serif;} _filtered {}#yiv5316627483 div.yiv5316627483WordSection1 {}#yiv5316627483 Hi  I would make a push for absentee voting, including native speakers that can help with that process.   Many tribal members, particularly on the Navajo Nation,  have to travel a long way to vote.   In general folks with absentee ballots are more likely to vote.   Voting in CD2 in 2018 was positively impacted  by  encouraging absentee ballots, particularly important in the more rural area of the county where there was limited early voting and long distances to travel to vote.  Leora  From: Lwvcnmtopics <lwvcnmtopics-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> On Behalf Of Linda Adcox-Kimmel
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:18 PM
To: kwentworth17 at comcast.net
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Subject: Re: [Lwvcnmtopics] League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico Updates  Might it be beneficial to have Dine and Puebloan interpreters or translators available at voting centers, telephonically if not in person, for those voters?  Thanks,  Linda Adcox-Kimmel  On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:25 PM <kwentworth17 at comcast.net> wrote:
George- This is an issue that has been debated in the NM legislature for decades. When it is discussed, the traditional arguments are that Navajo has been primarily a spoken rather than written language, and that native speakers have not read or written in the language, so the value on a ballot would be dubious. There have been similar arguments for the pueblo languages and the Apache languages. The NM SOS has tried to deal with this by publishing some materials about voting in a various languages. The state has never been able to satisfactorily resolve the problem. KarenFrom: Lwvcnmtopics <lwvcnmtopics-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> On Behalf Of George Richmond
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 11:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [Lwvcnmtopics] League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico Updates I read the attachment to Karen's letter which deals with voting procedures.One issue is that Native Americans may not be proficient in English (or Spanish) to be able to complete the ballot in either language but could benefit if the ballot were printed in their language, say, Ute or Dine, for example.Yet, for some mysterious reason, ballots in New Mexico are printed in BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH.  Perhaps that law could be changed to: Printed in English OR Spanish OR Dine OR.....I say this is an idea whose time has come. George RichmondOn 6/24/2020 9:06 PM, kwentworth17 at comcast.net wrote:
Hello League members- We hope you are safe and healthy during this long summer. We will have a unit meeting at noon on July 9 for all members who are willing to join us on Zoom. We will have a panel of speakers to talk about the decisions made at the U.S. League of Women Voters virtual convention this week. That will be a great way to catch up with our national agenda and to start thinking about where we fit in the national priorities. We also wanted to share a new study of our primary election problems that has just been released by the UNM School of Social Policy. It looks and what went wrong during the primary and suggests changes that might be made during the next legislative session in January. It points out specific problems in Sandoval County with allowing tribal members to vote and a possible solution. It also suggests a solution for everyone who didn’t get their absentee ballot back to the Bernalillo County Clerk in time for it to be counted. League members are active currently on the Voter Guide. We are preparing questions for the candidate for November and Mary Wilson at t3wilson at aol.com is looking for volunteers to help call candidates and work on ballot and bond questions and the informational section on how people can vote in November. This is all work that can be done virtually to protect those who are still social distancing. We will do an online and printed version of the Voter Guide for the November election. We hope to see you soon, even if it is only on Zoom. I’ll send out the invitation closer to the meeting. Karen WentworthCo-President, LWVCNM    _______________________________________________Lwvcnmtopics mailing listLwvcnmtopics at mailman.swcp.comhttps://mailman.swcp.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lwvcnmtopics
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