NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico’s voter registration records have once again been published online for the public to see. Information such as a registered voter’s name, address, vote history, political party affiliation, and more is available on Voter Reference Foundation‘s website.
Publicly available voter information does not include social security numbers, identifying information about where a voter registered, a voter’s day/month of birth, or a voter’s telephone number.
As stated on its website, the Voter Reference Foundation’s goals are “ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America,” and “encouraging greater voter participation in all fifty states.” The foundation also aims to publish voter and government election data from all 50 states on its website.
“We uploaded the newest public voter data for New Mexico and published on VoteRef.com this summer. The United States District Court of New Mexico ruled Voter Reference Foundation has the right to publish such voter data and New Mexico’s attempts to stifle that right violated the National Voter Registration Act.
We will continue to bring transparency to inaccurate and sloppy voter rolls across the country. The public would never tolerate such imprecision for other vital records but oddly we tolerate it with our elections.”
Dan Curry, spokesman, Voter Reference Foundation
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While the exact publication date of New Mexican voter’s information is unknown, it follows a judge’s ruling in a lawsuit in April. The lawsuit was filed by the Voter Reference Foundation against the Secretary of State’s office and the New Mexico Attorney General’s office, which is now known as the New Mexico Department of Justice (NMDOJ).
Albuquerque-based U.S. District Judge James Browning ruled that the Voter Reference Foundation should have been allowed access to voter data through the National Voter Registration Act’s Public Inspection Provision. Browning also ruled that the Secretary of State’s office and the New Mexico Department of Justice violated the Public Inspection Provision by denying the foundation’s request for New Mexico’s voting records.
Browning also ruled in favor of the state on some counts, saying that the Secretary of State’s office and the New Mexico Department of Justice are allowed to restrict the use of voter information to some extent without violating the U.S. Constitution.
The NMDOJ is awaiting the final disposition on some of the claims that were not resolved in the summary judgment motion Browning submitted in April. “We will evaluate our appeal options when that final disposition/order is published,” NMDOJ Director of Communications Lauren Rodriguez wrote in an email to KRQE.
This is not the first time the Voter Reference Foundation has included New Mexico in its searchable database. The conservative-backed organization first published New Mexico voter’s personal information on VoteRef.com in December 2021 after obtaining data through a business called Local Labs, according to court documents. The Voter Reference Foundation removed New Mexico’s records from its website in March 2022, just before filing the lawsuit.
Voter Reference Foundation previously removed the data “out of fear that it would be prosecuted based on the Secretary of State’s interpretation of the law and her referral of VRF [Voter Reference Foundation] to the Attorney General’s office for potential prosecution,” court documents stated.
If you have questions about your voter information, the Bureau of Elections can be contacted at 505-827-3600 or by emailing Elections@sos.nm.gov.