Secretary of State Dianna Duran
The Los Angeles Times took a look today at a controversy Secretary of State Dianna Duran sparked when she claimed in March that foreign nationals had voted in New Mexico elections.
From the article:
“Dianna Duran, New Mexico’s secretary of State who took office in January, sounded a tad pugnacious in March when she reported that 117 foreign nationals with phony Social Security numbers had registered to vote and 37 had cast ballots in elections.
“There was, she said, ‘a culture of corruption’ in the state.
“Duran, who had ordered her staff to check 1.16 million voter registration records against motor vehicle and Social Security databases, also raised eyebrows by referring 64,000 voter registration records to the state police, citing irregularities.
“No one has been charged with a crime, and Duran, a former Republican state senator and county clerk, has since taken fire from Democratic legislators, public interest groups and news organizations that say she has overstated her case, scared voters and withheld proof of her claims.
“Duran maintains that she is just doing what she was elected to do. ‘I am simply adhering to the promise I made to voters all over the state,’ she said in an interview.”
Read the full article here.