New Mexico Greens Fight to Retain Ballot Status
Volume 5, Issue 2 Summer 2001 In a case that may serve as a test for the nation, the Green Party of New Mexico is filing suit to retain major party status. They are challenging a March, 2001 reinterpretation of the state election code by Democratic Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron. According to Vigil-Giron’s unorthodox reading of the law, the rules that have applied since the New Mexcio Greens attained major party status in 1994 are without benefit of legislative…