VOTE 2022 YOUR VOTE MATTERS IN EVERY ELECTION!
¡TU VOTO CUENTA EN TODAS LAS ELECCIONES, ES IMPORTANTE!
The November 8, General Election will decide who represents you. The candidate information in this Voter Guide was obtained by means of a questionnaire sent to all the candidates. Their unedited responses have been printed exactly as submitted — up to the word limit for each response.
El 8 de noviembre de 2022 en la Elecciones Generales se decidirá quién nos va a representar. La información dada por los candidatos fue obtenida mediante un cuestionario enviado a todos ellos. Sus respuestas fueron impresas, sin editarlas, exactamente como las enviaron, hasta el límite de palabras para cada respuesta.
The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan political organization for men and women that does not support or oppose any political party or candidate. The League provides unbiased, factual information so that voters may be well informed.
La Liga de las Mujeres Votantes es una organización política no partidista de hombres y mujeres que ni apoya ni se opone a ningún candidato o partido político en específico. La liga proporciona información imparcial y veraz para que los votantes puedan estar bien informados.
HOW TO VOTE IN SANTA FE COUNTY REGISTER to vote OR confirm you are already registered by going to SanteFe.vote. You can do same day registration and vote up to and including Election Day, November 8.
CÓMO VOTAR EN EL CONDADO DE SANTA FE
TO VOTE EARLY (before November 8): Option 1. Request an Absentee Ballot before at SantaFe.vote. Ballots mailed starting October 11; return in drop boxes or mail to County Clerk. Option 2. Same-day registration and early in-person voting at the County Clerk’s Office (100 Catron Street) October11-November 5. For hours go to SantaFe.vote. Option 3. Alternative Voting Sites — same-day registration and early voting. October 22-November 5. See list of locations. TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY, November 8: Sample ballot and polling places can be found at SantaFe.vote. Hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
REGÍSTRATE para votar, O confirma si estás registrado yendo al sitio web de SantaFe.vote. Puedes empadronarte y votar hasta el día mismo de las elecciones, el 8 de noviembre. PARA VOTAR TEMPRANO (antes del 8 de noviembre): Opción 1. Solicita tu boleta para votar por correo antes del 3 de noviembre en SantaFe.vote. Las boletas enviadas por correo a partir del 11 de octubre, después de llenarse se pueden, o depositar en los buzones especiales para la elección o mandar por correo a la oficina del secretario del condado (County Clerk’s Office) en 100 Catron Street 87501 Opción 2. Para registrarse y votar temprano el mismo día y en persona, en la oficina del secretario del condado (County Clerk’s Office) del 11 de octubre al 5 de
noviembre. Para los horarios de la oficina, visita el sitio web: SantaFe.vote Opción 3. Sitios de votación alternativos: registro del mismo día y votación temprana. 22 de octubre-5 de noviembre. Por favor cheque la lista de ubicaciones PARA VOTAR EL 8 DE NOVIEMBRE, DÍA DE LAS ELECCIONES: Las boletas de muestra y los lugares de votación se pueden encontrar en Santafe.vote. Horarios: de 7:00 AM a 7: 00 PM.
EARLY VOTING SITES/ SITIOS PARA VOTAR TEMPRANO (drop boxes at Early Voting Sites)/(buzones especiales para votar en los Sitios de Votación Temprana) October 22 to November 5: Noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays/22 de octubre-5 de noviembre de 12 p.m. a 8 p.m. (de martes a viernes) y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. (sábados) Santa Cruz Abedon Lopez Community Center 155A Camino De Quintana
November 8 General Election
VOTER GUIDE 24-HR DROP BOXES/BUZONES ESPECIALES PARA VOTAR LAS 24 HR (available day and night)/(disponibles día y noche): Santa Fe Santa Fe Convention Center 119 S. Federal St. Nancy Rodriguez Center 1 Prairie Dog Loop La Cienega Community Center 136 Camino San Jose Southside Branch Library 6599 Jaguar Dr. Edgewood SFC Edgewood Satellite 114 Quail Trail Eldorado Max Coll Community Center Avenida Torreon Pojoaque Pojoaque Pueblo Plaza Pojoaque Satellite Office 5 W. Gutierrez, Ste. 9
MORE INFORMATION ON VOTING IN THE NOV. 8 GENERAL ELECTION Vote411.org: Online expanded Voter Guide and general voting information LWVSFC.org: link to Voter Guide and other voting information LWV Santa Fe County Help Line: 505.982.9766
Santa Fe Christian Life Church 121 Siringo Road Santa Fe Santa Fe County Fair Building 3229 Rodeo Road Santa Fe Southside Branch Library 6599 Jaguar Dr. Eldorado Max Coll Corridor Community Center 16 Avenida Torreon Edgewood Town of Edgewood Administrative Office 171A State Road 344 Pojoaque Pueblo Plaza Pojoaque Satellite Office 5 W. Gutierrez, Ste. 9
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 3 This person represents New Mexico in the United States House of Representatives. The House has 435 members elected from districts based on population. New Mexico is entitled to three members. Candidates must be at least 25 years old, a United States citizen for seven years, and must be a resident of New Mexico. Representatives are elected by district for a two-year term.
The League asked:
Do you believe the right to abortion should be codified by the Legislature?
What gun safety laws, if any, would you support?
What election and voting reforms would you support, if any?
What are the three most important issues you plan to work on?
I voted to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act which would codify abortion access at the federal level because, in New Mexico, we trust women to make personal decisions about pregnancy with their familias, their faith, and their healthcare provider - without government interference.
Like many families across rural New Mexico, I was born into a gun-owning household and raised in a family that hunted for sustenance. I bring this experience and connection to NM’s culture of hunting, gun ownership, and gun safety to my work in Congress. In my first term, I co-sponsored the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Assault Weapons Ban, spoke out in support of closing the Charleston Loophole, and am an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act. I have also focused on the intersection of gun violence and the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis, as the Chair of the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples. Through the appropriations process, I have also worked to find ways to prevent firearm suicide.
As a member of the House Elections Subcommittee, I was actively involved in the hearings that led to the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. I co-sponsored the underlying bills which included my amendments and lessons from New Mexico. We must protect indigenous, minority and rural voters’ access to the ballot. The Constitution in the elections clause gives Congress the power and right to pass laws to guide elections. Otherwise, States could undermine our democracy and we are seeing many states doing just that. Ensuring fair elections with campaign finance reforms so that every citizen’s voice counts equally is not only the right thing to do, it is the American thing to do. Our democracy is precious, and our right to vote is its foundation.
Since my swearing in, I’ve helped deliver infrastructure in water, broadband, transportation, healthcare and more, created jobs and invested in our communities. The Child Tax Credit cut child poverty by roughly 30%, sending $207.9 million to 78,000 New Mexico families. I am working to make the tax credit permanent. Small businesses and restaurants across my district tell me the American Rescue funds helped keep them open. I will help businesses grow while protecting workers. We need to bring costs down for New Mexican families with laws like the COMPETES Act, which will address our supply chain problems and create manufacturing jobs in NM. We need accessible and affordable health care that includes behavioral health and addiction services.
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I support free and fair elections. I believe that past voting protocols from the COVID-19 pandemic need to be reviewed thoroughly to see whether or not they are necessary. I support making sure underrepresented communities have access to vote, including early voting. I also believe it is important to ensure everyone is confident in our election results with widely-popular, common-sense reforms, such as Voter ID laws.
Without a good education system, we can’t have a good energy sector. We need STEM students to innovate and tackle our energy challenges headfirst. To improve education, we need to make sure our teachers are focused on teaching vital subjects instead of radical theories. Energy: we have endless untapped potential in New Mexico for clean natural gas and renewable energy. An energy renaissance in New Mexico would lead to a booming economy. Finally, the economy: inflation is too high, and it’s because of the tax and spend policies currently running Washington.
Teresa Leger Fernandez (Democrat) teresaforall.com
Alexis Martinez Johnson (Republican) electalexis.com
NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR Head of the executive branch and the highest state official in New Mexico. Appoints and supervises directors of executive departments, appoints members of boards and commissions, and signs or vetoes statutes enacted by the Legislature. Must be at least 30 years old, a United States citizen, and have resided continuously in New Mexico for five years preceding his/her election. Four-year term with no more than two terms in succession.
The League asked:
Do you believe the right to abortion should be codified by the Legislature?
What gun safety laws, if any, would you support?
How would you improve the election laws?
What are your three top priorities?
Karen Evette Bedonie (Libertarian)
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We need to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. It’s critical that to any democracy citizens have faith in their elections. That’s why I strongly support a Voter ID law that requires voters to show photo identification to cast a ballot. I support early and absentee voting, however I will oppose the practice of automatically sending live ballots to homes without a voter request, as has been proposed by Governor Lujan Grisham. This opens the door to fraud, since 20% of the population moves every election cycle. I will also fight against any effort to legalize ballot-harvesting.
My top three priorities are securing the border, fighting crime, and improving our schools. I will secure the border by deploying the National Guard and creating a Border Strike Force to target and disrupt the drug and human trafficking cartels. I will fight crime by ending “catch and release,” supporting our men and women in law enforcement, and ending the current state of lawlessness by putting real teeth in our laws. To improve schools, we will get money directly to the classroom, empower parents, and help catch kids from up the learning losses they suffered from the COVID shutdown.
I will always defend every New Mexicans’ right to make their own decision about reproductive health care with their family and their doctor. As Governor, I repealed New Mexico’s outdated anti-abortion law, in order to ensure abortion remains legal in our state regardless of the Supreme Court. I have expanded access to abortion in our state, including protecting New Mexico women and doctors from other states’ extremist bans. As governor I will continue to ensure that New Mexico remains a safe haven from extremist attacks, protecting access to abortion in our state.
Keeping New Mexicans safe also means keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. That’s why my administration took action to require universal background checks for gun purchases, enact critical red flag laws, and pass bipartisan legislation that increased the penalties for gun crimes. I support common-sense gun safety laws like banning assault weapons, and keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, including children. We can take steps to keep New Mexicans safe from the scourge of gun violence, while also respecting the rights of responsible gun owners.
New Mexico already has some of the best run and most secure elections in the country. I championed same day voter registration in New Mexico and I support changes to our election system that would make it easier for every New Mexican to cast their ballot and exercise their right to vote. I will always fight to protect the right of every New Mexican to vote and will always defend our democracy.
Education, economic prosperity, and public safety. We invested over $1 billion in New Mexico’s schools, increased teacher salaries, achieved universal pre-k, and made tuition-free college a reality. We made New Mexico one of the states for best job growth in the country, and cut taxes for every New Mexican. For the past four years we’ve worked to make our communities safer by raising officer pay, investing in local law enforcement offices to help them hire and retain officers, and working to address the root causes of crime by combating poverty and improving mental health care access.
Mark V. Ronchetti (Republican) markronchetti.com
Michelle Lujan Grisham (Democrat) newmexicansfor michelle.com
GENERAL ELECTION VOTER GUIDE | OCTOBER 2022