New Mexico Bill That Would Have Forced Write-in Candidates to Submit Difficult Petitions Fails to Pass

The New Mexico legislative session ended in the middle of the night, February 16-17. The omnibus election law bill that included a provision forcing declared write-in candidates to submit a petition of 1% of the last vote cast failed to pass, due to a filibuster conducted to stop the bill.

See this story. The motivation for the filibuster was not apparently related to the write-in restriction, but to something else in bill.

The bill was originally SB 6, but its contents had been transferred into SB 144. Although the latter bill had passed both houses of the legislature, the House had amended the bill so it needed to pass the Senate again, but it did not.


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