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The newly released New Mexico Election Study (NMES) reveals a successful general election in 2022, meaning the election was run well with strong security to protect the system against fraud, while also having many opportunities to ensure voter...

There was major enthusiasm about the Native American electorate’s potential role in the 2020 election outcome following a historic 2018 mid-term election where the importance of the Native American population as both voters and candidates reached unprecedented levels.

In the wake of the 2020 Election results there will be a lot of post-mortem analyses of Latino voters. What has become clear is that Latino voters were highly motivated to vote and were very focused on two critical policy issues. Just second to COVID-19...

A version of this story originally appeared in Brookings' How We Rise blog and was republished with permission from Brookings Institute. Gabriel Sanchez is a Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for...

There are only a few weeks left until Election Day in November but there is still time to register to vote and to get a mail-in ballot for those who prefer not to vote at a polling place. Student turnout has been on the rise nationwide and this year’s...

With the General Election less than a month away, there are dates and details on when and where Lobos can vote. Absentee voting begins on Tuesday, Oct. 9. That day is also the deadline to register to participate in the election. Early voting — in the...