New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver asked the state’s attorney general to investigate a GOP-led county commission that refused to certify the results of a recent primary election.
"I'm not planning to move off my position," Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin said in a telephone interview with CNN on Thursday."Why have a commission if we just get overridden by the court system?"The State Supreme Court on Wednesday, acting on an emergency request from New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, ordered the Otero County commissioners to certify the primary results by Friday -- the statutory deadline for county certification.
"On Thursday, Oliver asked the state's attorney general to investigate the commission over several recent actions.In the referral to Attorney General Hector Balderas, a fellow Democrat, Oliver said members of the Otero County Commission have taken"multiple unlawful actions" this month -- including declining to certify the results of the June 7 primary, ordering the removal of ballot-drop boxes and voting to discontinue to the use of vote-tallying machines.
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