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Re: Here's Everything Wrong With New Mexico's Incredibly Dangerous New Election Law

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On 08 Jun 2021, Ted <tedsmasher@gmail.com> posted some 
news:almarsoft.4565207519254787864@news.easynews.com:

> New Mexico is run by pedophiles.  Epstein pedophiles.

The bill is a massive expansion of Democrat-backed election policies that 
blue states across the nation are intent on ramming through state 
legislatures.

On March 30, New Mexico Governor and Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham 
signed one of the worst election bills in the U.S. into law. The bill, 
dubbed the “New Mexico Voting Rights Act,” is a massive expansion of 
Democrat-backed election policies that blue states across the nation are 
intent on ramming through state legislatures.

As my colleague Shawn Fleetwood noted, such a strat is the result of 
congressional Democrats’ failure to pass HR 1, a measure that would cement 
Democrats’ radical election policies into law and federalize state 
elections. Because HR 1 died in the Senate in 2021, Democrats have decided 
the best way for them to change the country’s election laws is to 
implement them state-by-state. And New Mexico, where Democrats enjoy 
unified control of the state government, is an optimal place for them to 
start.

Here’s a brief overview of what the bill does.

Automatic Voter Registration
Starting in 2025, New Mexico residents who apply for a driver’s license 
will automatically be registered to vote, as well as in other public 
agencies “designated by the Secretary of State.” Such a move is 
reminiscent of Biden’s executive order federalizing elections, which 
turned federal agencies, especially those that dole out federal benefits, 
into voter registration centers. There are serious ethical concerns with 
tying federal or state benefits to election activity. As Federalist 
Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway noted, “Federal agencies that interact 
with the public by doling out benefits can easily pressure recipients to 
vote for particular candidates and positions.” This same risk pattern 
presents itself in New Mexico.

Plus, by automatically registering those who apply for a driver’s license, 
New Mexico increases the chance of accidentally granting the franchise to 
non-citizen residents since the state allows noncitizens to obtain 
driver’s licenses. It will not be surprising if New Mexico ends up like 
Colorado, which also automatically registers those who apply for a 
driver’s license to vote and allows noncitizens to obtain licenses. 
Despite the Colorado Secretary of State’s insistence that noncitizen 
residents would not be allowed to register to vote, Colorado ended up 
sending 31,000 foreign nationals voter registration mailers prior to the 
2022 midterm elections.

As Carla Sonntag, founder and CEO of New Mexico Business Coalition and 
Better Together New Mexico, told my colleague, Shawn Fleetwood, “HB 4 is 
far worse than anything we’ve seen before. Even though proof of 
citizenship is supposed to be required to vote, the automatic registration 
mandate includes New Mexico’ residents’ who may not be here legally. And 
since New Mexico provides driver’s licenses for nonresidents, this mandate 
significantly increases the likelihood of non-U.S. citizens being 
registered to vote.”

Felon Voting
Another provision of the bill grants roughly 11,000 felons currently on 
probation or parole the right to vote, abolishing previous voting 
prohibitions. It also provides voter registration opportunities for felons 
once they’ve completed their sentences. As I’ve previously noted, granting 
the vote to felons is part of the left’s strategy to harvest low-effort 
votes and add thousands of new voters to their ranks, as felons 
disproportionately vote Democrat. Per a 2019 Ragnar Research study, 
“incarcerated felons are more than three times as likely to be registered 
Democrats (1.7:1) or unaffiliated (1.4:1) than Republicans. Ex-felons are 
four times as likely to be Democrats (2.7:1) or unaffiliated (1.3:1).”

While Democrats may consider granting criminals the right to vote a civil 
rights issue, make no mistake, they really see these individuals as a 
vulnerable new constituency they can turn into a reliable voting bloc 
(along with young people, single women, and minorities).

Mail-in Balloting
HB4 also allows New Mexico residents to opt into all-mail elections, 
meaning the state will send them an absentee ballot for all future 
elections as long as they don’t miss two consecutive elections. Such a 
move will likely lead to New Mexico becoming an all-mail state.

Currently, eight states conduct their elections exclusively by mail 
(thanks to the Covid-19 lockdowns that popularized it), with disastrous 
results. For example, 10 million mail-in ballots are missing in California 
from the 2022 midterm election. In Nevada, 1.2 million ballots from the 
2022 election cycle remain unaccounted for. While election officials 
believe a majority of these ballots were thrown out or ignored by 
recipients, because there is no chain of custody with all-mail elections, 
there is no way of knowing whether the ballots were withheld from 
recipients or fraudulently filled out.

Plus, states that allow for mail-in balloting greatly incentivize ballot 
harvesting by political operatives. Democrat activists can now coax 
potential voters to fill out their ballots on the spot, wherever they 
might be, and later deliver them to election offices rather than having to 
convince voters to do the legwork themselves. And especially as HB4 
mandates a minimum of two absentee drop boxes per county, expect Democrats 
to double down on their ballot harvesting efforts.

What This Means
Election integrity advocates must be vigilant of attempts by Democrats to 
pass similar legislation to that of New Mexico in other states. For 
example, bills like Minnesota’s HF 3, which establishes automatic voter 
registration and lowers the voting age to 16. Other efforts are underway 
in New Jersey and Wisconsin. This is not to mention smaller pushes to 
expand noncitizen voting, granting the franchise to felons, and pre-
registering high school students. All of these attempts are evidence of 
the left’s efforts to restructure American elections in ways that give 
leftists a near-permanent electoral advantage.

“New Mexico Democrats have decided to follow in Congressional Democrats’ 
footsteps, jamming through highly partisan election laws that weaken 
election integrity for partisan gain,” Director of Honest Elections 
Project Action Jason Snead said. “HB 4 pushes the state towards all-mail 
voting by creating a permanent mail voting list, automatically returns 
voting privileges to felons who have not yet completed their full 
sentences, and mandates error-prone automatic voter registration. Each of 
these ‘reforms’ are as partisan as they are unwise, and jeopardize voters’ 
trust in elections. These new laws are a step in the wrong direction for 
election integrity.”

<https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/04/heres-everything-wrong-with-new-
mexicos-incredibly-dangerous-new-election-law/>

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