Trump Campaign Files Election Lawsuit in New Mexico Over Ballot Drop Boxes
President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit in New Mexico challenging the 2020 general election results over the state’s use of ballot drop boxes.
The campaign’s lawsuit alleges that New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver violated state election laws by allowing voters to return their absentee ballots in drop boxes placed outside polling locations instead of handing their ballot to a presiding election judge.
The drop boxes were installed in the state as part of measures to avoid crowding at polling places due to the pandemic. The lawsuit argues that the drop boxes should have been subjected to the same requirement as a “secured container,” as stipulated for alternative ballot-return options by the election code.
Trump files lawsuit in New Mexico over ballot drop boxes
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ALBUQUERQUE – On the very day that New Mexico electors met in Santa Fe to formally cast New Mexico s electoral votes for president, President Donald Trump s campaign filed a lawsuit over New Mexico s use of drop boxes in the 2020 elections.
The federal lawsuit claims that New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver violated state election code by permitting voters to deposit completed absentee ballots in drop boxes at voting locations rather than handing them to the location s presiding judge in person.
Drop boxes were installed around the state this fall using federal funding from the CARES Act in an effort to reduce numbers of voters congregating at voting locations in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Christopher Nalls puts his ballot in a drop box near the City-County Building in October. A lawsuit filed Monday by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign targets New Mexico’s use of the drop boxes. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
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SANTA FE – President Donald Trump’s legal effort to stop the 2020 election results from being made final hit New Mexico on Monday, even as the state’s five Democratic presidential electors cast their votes for Joe Biden in a largely empty state Capitol.
Trump’s reelection campaign filed a 42-page lawsuit in federal court against Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver that primarily targets the state’s use of absentee ballot drop boxes.
People voting in glass houses shouldn’t cast doubt
Sherry Robinson
The Republican Party of New Mexico wants you to doubt the general election, when there is no evidence of fraud, but accept the party’s own election despite its notable glitches.
Four men ran for party chairman. In a recent Zoom meeting, 172 members of the State Central Committee chose officers and district chairs. Current Chairman Steve Pearce orated for 20 minutes as they were voting, on top of the 2 minutes given each candidate.
Initially, the party announced that Pearce won by one vote but then admitted that TXT2VOTE, an election software company, muffed the count of 3rd Congressional District votes. After the second count, Pearce was the winner by 29 votes.
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