Associated Press: New Mexico rolls out same-day voter registration program
Previously, voter registration was halted 28 days before any election as a precaution against possible double-voting while county clerks updated registration rolls painstakingly by hand with paper and ink, said Mario Jimenez, a policy campaign manager with the progressive good-government group Common Cause New Mexico.
That is no longer necessary with advances in electronic record keeping and technology that synchronizes voter registration records with state motor vehicle databases.
Jimenez believes the switch to...
That is no longer necessary with advances in electronic record keeping and technology that synchronizes voter registration records with state motor vehicle databases.
Jimenez believes the switch to...