On February 15, the New Mexico House Judiciary Committee tabled HJR 12, the proposed state constitutional amendment that said independent voters may vote in partisan primaries. See this story. Thanks to Rick Lass for the link.

New Mexico major party political leaders act as though they don’t realize that the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986 said that parties decide for themselves whether to let independents vote in their primaries, and state laws cannot set that policy for any party.