A challenge to the petition signatures collected by would-be First Congressional District Democratic candidate Rebecca Vigil-Giron may be decided in court today.
A hearing on the matter is scheduled for 2 p.m. in the court of District Judge Daniel Sanchez in
“I hope to be on the ballot,” Vigil-Giron said.
Vigil-Giron has filed a motion to dismiss the challenge, which was filed earlier this month by three supporters of another Democratic First Congressional District candidate, Michelle Lujan-Grisham. It alleges that Vigil-Giron submitted more than 600 signatures that weren’t valid, which would leave her 100 short of the 1,214 required to qualify for the ballot.
Vigil-Giron, a former secretary of state, is the only federal Democratic or Republican candidate from