An Informational One-Pager on the Redistricting Senate Bill.
Tracking of NM Senate Support for Fair Redistricting: Your help sought to contact and persuade New Mexico Senators. Please contact us at fairdistricts@lwvnm.org with any feedback you can share with us.
Legislators' responses to redistricting questions by region. These are combined answers from various surveys and the questions were posed differently:
New Mexico redistricting task force calls for new process.
New Mexico redistricting task force calls for new process in the Las Cruces Sun-News
Commission would ensure ?1 person, 1 vote?
in the Albuquerque Journal
Recording of the Webinar Redistricting Rock Stars, Tuesday, January 12, 6:30pm.
See FDNM with Redistricting Task Force Chairmen former NM Supreme Court Justice Edward Chavez and former NM Appeals Court Judge Roderick Kennedy as we discuss how the Chairmen foresee the Task Force's findings affecting redistricting reform at the legislative session. We also discuss the Redistricting Act, the Senate bill for redistricting reform. Hosted by the League of Women Voters New Mexico President, Hannah Burling.
Read the Task Force's report here: Redistricting Taskforce in New Mexico.
View the PowerPoint here: FDNMPowerPointTempB.pptx.
Writer and reporter Gwyneth Doland, of New Mexico In Depth, speaks about the historical aspects of redistricting in New Mexico, how they impact redistricting today, and what we might expect in redistricting 2021. Doland is the author of Redistricting NM 2021; A troubled history and opportunities for change.
View the video of our webinar on Redistricting in New Mexico.
Research & Polling presentation to New Mexico Legislative Council (PDF, 1.5M) from January 19, 2021.
This is an open source program developed by the MGGG Lab atTufts University. Advocates in New Mexico have tried this and have been impressed. Main link: https://districtr.org/. Or go straight to the link for New Mexico. Read about details of the software (PDF).
1/9/21: Chairwoman Cheryl Harris of the Adelante Progressive Caucus, Op-Ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican: Redistricting Reform Would Empower Voters.
11/15/20: Kathy Brook and Eileen VanWie op-ed in the Las Cruces Sun News: Redistricting process must be fair and open.
Santa Fe New Mexican: Prepare for Redistricting - its bound to get messy.
Redistricting Task Force Will Help Make Redistricting Fair: Oped by Kathleen Burke, Project Coordinator, Fair Districts for New Mexico - August 31, 2020.
Tuesday, July 21, Redistricting in NM Zoominar featuring Dick Mason, NM League of Women Voters, Kathleen Burke, Fair Districts New Mexico, and Senators Gerry Ortiz y Pino and Mark Moores. Part of the Retake Our Democracy Zoominar Series.
NM lawmakers should set new redistricting criteria: OpEd by John House, President of RepresentUs New Mexico, published Sunday, July 5th, 2020 in the ABQ Journal.
Public should Have a Say: Letter to the Editor in the Las Cruces Sun News, April 5 2020, by Kathy Brook, Las Cruces.
The New Mexico Redistricting Process Needs Sunshine: Letter to the Editor Published in the ABQ Journal March 25, 2020, by Richard Mason, Leader of the Fair Districts for New Mexico Project.
Now is the time for redistricting reform: A letter to the editor in the Los Alamos Monitor by Barbara Calef, LWVNM VP (10/26/2019).
NM should work now to implement redistricting reform: A guest column in the Albuquerque Journal by Hannah Burling, President, LWVNM (7/30/2019).
Struggle, chaos, litigation, great cost: NM redistricting:
by Gwyneth Doland of New Mexico In Depth. District 39 really does look
like a howling coyote!
Doland also has a longer report:
Redistricting
NM 2021: a Troubled History and Opportunities for Change (PDF),
and a video:
Redistricting
in NM Explained in 14 Minutes.
Results of a poll on public views on redistricting reform by UNM Center for
Social Policy. In some cases the presentation compares the public views with
those who applied to be on the Redistricting Task Force:
2020 New Mexico Redistricting Survey.
Fact Sheet: PLEASE SUPPORT HM8.
Downloadable Articles and Info.
Themes for Op/Eds and Letters to the Editor.
You can get legislator contact information from the New Mexico League of Women Voters.