Elections Performance News Today

Current Auditor Kerri Tompkins is running for election against a primary challenger, Mark Nelson. Both answered a survey from the Quad-City Times. Read their responses.

New Mexico’s top election official won’t disclose key information about a new electronic signature-verification system for putting candidates on the ballot, a lawsuit alleges just months after she settled a court case over lack of transparency. 

New Mexico was ranked No. 1 for election administration by an MIT project.

New Mexico’s 2022 election was ranked most well-run in the country by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Election Data and Science Lab’s Elections Performance Index. “The professional election administrators who keep the polls open and the votes counted and the engine of democracy running in New Mexico are exemplary and it’s an honor to see this