{"id":30842,"date":"2011-08-01T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=30842"},"modified":"2011-11-18T07:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:01:19","slug":"la-times-looks-at-duran%e2%80%99s-vote-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/08\/la-times-looks-at-duran%e2%80%99s-vote-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times looks at Duran\u2019s vote probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28695\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28695\" title=\"Duran, Dianna\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Duran-Dianna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of State Dianna Duran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDianna Duran, New Mexico\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was, she said, \u2018a culture of corruption\u2019 in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuran, 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuran maintains that she is just doing what she was elected to do. \u2018I am simply adhering to the promise I made to voters all over the state,\u2019 she said in an interview.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-voter-fraud-20110731,0,3681625.story\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142,111,107,225],"class_list":["post-30842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crime","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}