IDs? We Don' Need No Stinking IDs (Not to vote anyway)!

This just in, via friend and super-guy, Robert Adams,

House Bill 577 (Rep. Brown, R, Eddy County) - Photo Voter Identification Required to vote, the sequel, is on the agenda for House Voters and Elections Committee tomorrow am (Saturday 8:30am). Please take the time to call and/or email the NM Reps who are on the committee (see below).

Let them know that VOTER IDENTIFICATION laws that are currently in place are working well! This bill is not necessary. Tell them to please VOTE NO on HB577!

Thank the Representatives who have voted already this session to table a similar bill - Chair Mary... Helen Garcia, Vice Chair Danice Picraux, Speaker Ben Lujan, Reps Madelana, Martinez, Rodella and Sandoval and ask them to VOTE NO on HB577, tomorrow.

Urge the remaining members who have supported this type of legislation to vote no! See the list below:


Mary Helen Garcia 986-4341      maryhelen.garcia@nmlegis.gov

Danice Picraux 986-4438 danice.picraux@nmlegis.gov

Thomas Anderson 986-4451 kb5ysg@arrl.net

Nate Gentry 986-4249 natefornm@gmail.com

Conrad James 986-4211 conradjamesforhd24@gmail.com

Speaker Ben Lujan 986-4782 ben.lujan@nmlegis.gov

James Roger Madalena 986-4417 jrmadalena@fsipinc.org

Ken Martinez 986-4776 mlo1@7cities.net

William "Bill" Rehm 986-4248 bill.rehm@nmlegis.gov

Debbie Rodella 986-4329 debbie.rodella@yahoo.com

Edward Sandoval 986-4420 edward.sandoval@nmlegis.gov

James Smith 986-4467 jim@jimsmithnm.com

Shirley Tyler 986-4214 sntyler@valornet.com



It's important to note that the battle for IDs in the voter registration/voting process is continuously being fought and went as far as the NM Supreme Court. New Mexico DOES NOT NEED IDs at the POLLS (voting). Our County Clerks have a very good system. We don't need a bill that further hampers our ability to cast our vote!

Many people do not have any form of ID. You don't believe this? During the same year of the Supreme Court hearing on whether a resident needed an ID in order to register to vote, I worked on a statewide voter registration project. I learned that many of our brothers and sisters who live on reservations do not have or need IDs. I learned that many who do not drive in this state do not have or need IDs. They still have the right to vote!

You're a NM resident. You registered to vote. You go to the polls. If there's a question about who you are when you sign in, the voting poll judge and the County Clerk will verify your identification.

Here's one more case of BIG BROTHER intruding into our privacy. Stop this action now, before it becomes law! CALL and/or EMAIL the legislators above, TONIGHT! Thank you!

Many thanks to Robert Adams, Bernalillo County Deputy County Clerk! Robert recently received the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from Verified Voting NM and United Voters of NM!