It has now been more than 30 days since the New Mexico Attorney General’s office, and the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office, have said that they are preparing a legal opinion as to whether the Green Party is still a qualified party. Two weeks ago those officials had hinted that the decision would be out by the end of October. Now they are saying they don’t know when they will release it.

It is likely the officials are keeping the analysis secret until the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled on the Libertarian Party’s ballot access case. In that case, the state had made much of the fact that Greens were on the ballot in 2006 for three state offices. If the state has now decided that the Greens were on the ballot in 2006 by mistake, it would be embarassing for the state to have that analysis known by the 10th circuit.