On April 7, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez signed SB 403, which makes some ballot access improvements: (1) it lowers the number of signatures to qualify a new party in gubernatorial years; (2) it moves the independent candidate petition deadline from early June to late June; (3) it says that the petition to create a new party is available any time.
Do you know what the numbers for a new party will be now?
In 2010, the requirement was actually 4,151 signatures, but if this bill had been law, the requirement would have been 2,796.
Wow, and to think North Carolina requires 85,379.
Do you have a link to the bill?
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0403.pdf