On December 14, former New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran was sentenced to 30 days in jail, and ordered to make restitution. See this story. Duran was the first Republican ever elected Secretary of State. She was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. While she was Secretary of State, she reversed a favorable precedent made by her predecessors, concerning how a party remains on the ballot. The former Secretaries of State had interpreted election code section 1-7-2.C to mean that a party remains on the ballot unless it fails the one-half of 1% vote test two elections in a row. But she interpreted it to remove a party from the ballot as soon as it fails the vote test the first time. Thanks to Mike Fellows for the link.