General Election November 6, 2012 General Election
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This is your free copy of this guide to the election. TABLE OF CONTENTS Voter Information in Spanish .......... 3 CANDIDATES FEDERAL OFFICES United States Senator ................ 4-5 VOTERS’ GUIDE United States Representative ........... 5-7 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO STATE OFFICES Justice of the Supreme Court ........... 7-8 Copyright © 2012. Prepared by the League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico Education Fund Judge of the Court of Appeals ........... 8-9 Copyright © 2012. League of Women Voters of New Mexico www.lwvnm.org NEW MEXICO STATE DISTRICT OFFICES LWVCNM: 2315 San Pedro NE, Suite F-6, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 www.lwvcnm.org State Senator ..................... 9-15 (505) 884-8441 Fax: (505) 883-3294 State Representative ................ 16-27 Public Regulation Commissioner ........ 27-28 Public Education Commissioner ......... 28-29 District Judge .................... 29-32 GENERAL ELECTION District Attorney .................. 32-33 GENERAL ELECTION BERNALILLO COUNTY OFFICES Metropolitan Court Judge ............... 33 County Commissioner ................. 34 County Clerk ....................... 34 NOVEMBERNOVEMBER 6,6, 20122012 County Treasurer .................... 35 AMAFCA Directors ................... 35 A General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. A General Election is held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year. This General Election will SANDOVAL COUNTY OFFICES fill the offices of President, United States Senator, United States Representative, and districted New County Commissioner ............... 35-37 Mexico offices and county positions. County Clerk ....................... 37 County Treasurer .................. 37-38 If you are a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age or older on Election Day, and registered to Probate Judge ...................... 38 vote, you may vote in this General Election. SSCAFCA Directors .................. 39 ESCAFCA Directors .................. 39 If you have a question concerning the election or voter registration, please phone your County Clerk: Bernalillo County Clerk’s office 468-1291 http://www.bernco.gov/clerk; Sandoval County Clerk’s office JUDICIAL RETENTION 867-7574 http://boe.sandovalcountynm.gov/. The Voters’ Guide is also available on the Internet at Justice of the Supreme Court ............ 40 www.lwvcnm.org. Judge of the Court of Appeals .......... 40-41 BALLOT ISSUES State Constitutional Amendments ........ 41-42 VOTING INFORMATION State Bond Questions ................. 43 Bernalillo County office, 867-7574, 1500 Idalia Road, Blg D, REGISTERING TO VOTE Bond Questions ................ 44-45 Bernalillo, NM 87004. The County Clerk’s office will You must be registered to vote with the County AMAFCA Bond Question ............. 45 verify the application information and mail your Clerk by Tuesday, October 9, to vote in the City of Albuquerque Ballot Question ........ 46 absentee ballot to you. Friday, October 29, is the November 6 General Election. If you are not last day the County Clerk’s office will mail out already registered to vote, you may obtain a voter absentee ballots. The ballot contains instructions registration application form from various places for completion and return. including the County Clerk, all public libraries, and The League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico is a nonpartisan organization that provides the Motor Vehicle Division offices. If you apply for an absentee ballot and receive it, information about political issues and candidates for When is identification required? You need to you must vote that ballot. You will not be issued public office in order to promote greater responsibility present identification when you register to vote only another ballot if the original ballot is destroyed, and participation in government. Because the League if you are registering for the first time in your county discarded, or delivered to the polls unvoted. If you is nonpartisan, it DOES NOT support or oppose any apply for, but do not receive, the absentee ballot, political party or candidate. It does publish and and you register by mail. If you do not submit the distribute factual information for citizens to use when proper identification, you will be asked to provide it you may go to the county clerk’s office until preparing to vote. before you vote in your first election. Accepted Monday, November 1, and apply for a replacement ballot. You may also go to your polling place and The information in this Voters’ Guide was obtained by identification, if you are registering for the first time means of questionnaires sent to all the candidates, by mail, includes a copy of any current and valid vote on a provisional ballot in lieu of an absentee except those who are unopposed. Their answers are photo ID, a utility bill, bank statement, government ballot on Election Day. You will be required to sign printed exactly as received by the League. Because check, paycheck, or any other government a sworn statement that you did not receive your of space restrictions, candidates are limited to a document that shows your current and valid name ballot. specific number of words. Also, lists contained in and address. If you do not provide the required responses are converted to normal paragraph form. Your completed ballot must be received in the All candidates are listed in the order they will appear identification before Election Day or if you request on the November 6, 2012 ballot. an absentee ballot, you will be required to show County Clerk’s office no later than 7:00 p.m. on identification at the polls or provide copies when you Election Day, November 6. Please note that no Disclaimer mail your ballot. absentee ballot packet delivered in person will The information in this Voters’ Guide has been be accepted when delivered by someone other carefully assembled and compiled to assure maximum than the voter who signed the packet or a accuracy. However, the LWVCNM and the LWVCNM ABSENTEE VOTING BY MAIL member of the voter’s immediate family or a Education Fund assume no responsibility either for Any person qualified to vote may vote by absentee correctness of all the information furnished to the caregiver. League by candidates or other organizations or for ballot. Apply for an absentee ballot by phone or mail errors or omissions. In instances where there is a at your County Clerk’s Office: Bernalillo County When voting early, your absentee ballot will be question of potentially defamatory content, the Clerk’s office, 468-1291, One Civic Plaza NW, placed in a secrecy envelope and counted with the League will defer to the opinion of counsel. Albuquerque, NM 87102; Sandoval County Clerk’s rest of the absentee ballots on election night. Page 2, Voters’ Guide EARLY VOTING VOTER IDENTIFICATION PROVISIONAL BALLOT When you present yourself at your polling place You will be issued a provisional ballot if your Bernalillo County Residents for early voting or voting on Election Day, you are name does not appear on the roster at your required to give one of the following forms of polling place, or if you are a first-time voter who Beginning October 9 you may vote “absentee in voter identification: registered by mail and you do not provide the person” at the Bernalillo County Clerk’s office location, required identification. Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. and • A verbal or written statement by the voter of the Saturday, November 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.: County voter’s name, year of birth, and registered Clerk’s Office Annex, 620 Lomas NW (6th and Lomas), address; or VOTING OFFENSES Albuquerque. Voters are obligated to report voting offenses to • a physical form of identification including, but the County Clerk, the District Attorney, or the From Saturday, October 20 through Saturday, not limited to, a valid photo ID (with or without Secretary of State. Voting offenses are: November 3, (closed Sundays), you may vote early at address) or an original or copy of a utility bill, following alternative voting sites throughout Bernalillo government check, a paycheck, or a student or • Any form of campaigning within 100 feet of a County. The hours are: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. tribal ID that shows your name and address. The building containing a polling place. 98th & Central Shopping Center 120 98th St NW address is not required to match the voter’s • Using or possessing or carrying alcoholic Caracol Plaza Shopping Center certificate of registration. beverages within 200 feet of a polling place. 12500 Montgomery Blvd NE, Suite 101 Central & Juan Tabo Plaza 11816 Central Av SE, Suite C WRITE-IN VOTING • False voting, such as voting or offering to vote Clerk’s Annex 620 Lomas Blvd NW (West Section) although not qualified, voting in another’s name, Conejos Office Park 6700 Jefferson St NE, Building A Write-in voting is permitted on either the voting more than once during a single election, or Coors Plaza 3200 Coors Blvd NW, Suites A & G electronic ballot or on the paper ballot as long as asking or assisting another person in committing a Daskalos Center 5339 & 5339-A Menaul Blvd NE the person you vote for is qualified as a write-in voting offense. Goff Plaza 1720 Bridge Blvd SW, Suite G-1 candidate. You must write the candidate’s first Guadalupe Plaza 6211 4th St NW, Suite 40 and last names on the ballot. Montgomery Crossing 8510 Montgomery Blvd NE, Suite A3B Paseo Crossing Shopping Center 8000 Paseo Del Norte NE, Suite A2 Paseo Del Norte Shopping Center ELECTION DAY 8521 Golf Course Rd NW, Suite 112 Rio Bravo Senior Meal Site 3910 Isleta Blvd SW On November 6 the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. For further information about voting locations Siesta Hills Shopping Center 5405 Gibson Blvd SE please check online at the Secretary of State’s Voter View site https://voterview.state.nm.us/ or for Sun Country Plaza 9421 Coors Blvd NW, Suites G & H Bernalillo County residents go to http://www.bernco.gov/myvotecenter/ or call the Bernalillo County University of New Mexico Student Union Building, Clerk’s office at 468-1291 and the Sandoval County Clerk’s office at 867-7574.