02.27.08
A Sunland Park Municipal Judge candidate has been charged with vote fraud for allegedly voting twice in the 2004 election. Questions have also arisen as to whether Horacio Favela actually lives in New Mexico. According to a criminal complaint, the Doña Ana County Bureau of Elections opened an investigation when it received anonymous information indicating that Favela may live in El Paso. A search of voter records showed Favela allegedly voted in El Paso County in 2002 and 2004 and in Doña Ana County in 2000 and 2004. The complaint further alleges that Favela voted twice by absentee in 2004. Favela allegedly told investigators that he stays in El Paso on the weekends to visit his grandchildren and did recall voting twice in 2004. He faces one count of false voting, a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. The Las Cruces Sun-News has more on the story here.

02.27.07
The state Attorney General's Office has secured indictments against two Rio Arriba County men implicated in an alleged vote-buying scheme in the city of Española's 2006 municipal elections.   The vote-buying allegations came to light in a Rio Grande Sun report published in February 2006.   The newspaper quoted unnamed Española public housing residents as saying political operatives working for mayoral hopeful Floyd Archuleta's slate were buying votes.  The Archuleta camp denied the charges. Archuleta and the other members of his slate all went on to lose in their respective races.  (“2 indicted in alleged vote-buying scheme, suspects facing fine, prison time,” The Albuquerque Journal, 02/27/07)

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