New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative

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New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative

NMBVC is a non-partisan collective designed to increase voter participation among Black voters and allies in New Mexico.

We unite with several, local, Black-led organizations to get out the vote in the 2024 General Election.

11/04/2024

🗳️ 📅 Today, Nov. 5, is Election Day and New Mexico Black Leadership Council and New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative are sending a final reminder out to our communities about how essential civic participation is within our representative democracy. From high-profile races like President and Vice President of the United States to local judicial election, reelection and retention races to bond items and everywhere in between, voting your values really matters on national, statewide and local levels. ☑️ Find the 📍 Election Voting Location 📍 closest to you at nmvote.org 🔗 and don't forget that Same Day Registration is available on Election Day from 7am to 7pm. 📅 🗳️

11/01/2024

🗳️ New Mexico Black Leadership Council and New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative remind our communities that early voting ends tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 2. To cast your ballot before the General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, visit nmvote.org to find the Early Voting Convenience Center nearest you. Make your voice and values heard during this important election. 🗳️

10/31/2024

🎃🗳️ New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative reminds our communities that nothing is 🦇 scarier 🕷️🕸️ than a lack of civic participation in our democracy because that results in national, state and local leadership and policies that don't reflect our shared values. So through Nov. 2, find an early voting convenience center near you, at nmvote.org, and exercise your right to vote or cast your ballot on Election Day, Nov. 5. Learn more at nmvote.org or nmbvc.org. 🎃🗳️

10/28/2024

🎨🗳️ Is it possible to transform divisive graffiti into a call for civic engagement and participatory democracy? If you ask Cathryn McGill, founder and CEO of New Mexico Black Leadership Council, and artist Noé Barnett of NB Artistry, the answer is a definitive “Yes, we can.” Learn more about NMBLC's transformative civic engagement mural project in Albuquerque's International District in UpLift Chronicles article "From Graffiti to Get Out the Vote: 'Love Trumps Hate'" 🎨🗳️ at 🔗 bit.ly/lovetrumpshatenm

Photos by Emmanuel Tombe

10/26/2024

⚖️🗳️🏛 In the 2024 General Election, 39 New Mexico judges are on the ballot, either for retention, election or re-election. New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative believes in advocating for diversity within our local courts and educating voters on the judicial retention and re-election process in our state.

As The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law notes, “Bringing a range of experiences and perspectives to bear allows judges to make better informed decisions and increases public confidence in their rulings. Unfortunately today, neither state nor federal courts reflect the diversity of the communities they are supposed to serve.”

Today, New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative’s Diversity on the Bench Spotlight calls attention to two examples of this local judicial diversity: the retention election of Judge Shammara Henderson, who is running for re-election for judge of the New Mexico Court of Appeals; and the first election for Judge Shonnetta Estrada—who was appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in November 2022—for Division XI judge of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court.

Via BallotPedia: “[In the state of New Mexico,] if no candidate files to run against the current incumbent, the next election will be a retention election. If more than one candidate files, then a partisan election will take place. New Mexico also requires at least 57% of voters to vote yes for a judge to win a retention election.” ⚖️🗳️🏛

Learn more about Judge Henderson via the New Mexico Judicial Performance Commission (JPEC) at: bit.ly/jpechenderson.

Learn more about Judge Estrada at: keepjudgeestrada.com.

10/24/2024

🗳️ New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative encourages all eligible voters in our communities to visit an early voting location 🗳️📍 and check ✔️ General Election voting—and Same Day Registration, if needed—off your civic engagement to-do list. ✅ According to the Bernalillo County Clerk's Office, twenty (20) Early Voting Convenience Centers (EVCCs) in Bernalillo County will be open through Nov. 2. Locations are open Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm, unless otherwise noted. These sites will also be open on Election Day. 🗳️ Find the EVCC nearest you on the following slides or visit: www.berncoclerk.gov/elections/early-voting

10/19/2024

⚖️🗳️🏛 Today, New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative's Get Out the Vote message spotlights an important local voter education resource, the New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, and a recent press release announcing its recommendations for the 2024 General Election. JPEC recommends "that voters retain 35 of 39 judges who are standing for retention on the 2024 General Election ballot. The other four judicial retention candidates have not served sufficient time for JPEC to make a recommendation to voters. Under state law, the judges must receive at least 57 percent approval to remain on the bench. ...

This year, JPEC’s recommendations to voters statewide are:

Retain Honorable Briana H. Zamora, Supreme Court of New Mexico
Retain Honorable Jennifer L. Attrep, Megan P. Duffy and Shammara H. Henderson of the New Mexico Court of Appeals
.. For the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, JPEC’s recommendations are:

Retain Honorable Felicia Blea-Rivera, Rosemary Cosgrove-Aguilar, Michelle Castillo Dowler, Asra I. Elliott, Yvette K. Gonzales, Nina Aviva Safier and Renée Torres." ⚖️🗳️🏛

Read the full news release, which includes JPEC's recommendations related to District Court judges at: nmjpec.org/en/news

10/17/2024

🗳️ Today, New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative poses a question to our communities: Is voting a) a right, b) a responsibility, c) a privilege, or d) all of the above? 🗳️

10/15/2024

🗳️ Today's New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative voting tip highlights the deadline for requesting an absentee ballot for the 2024 General Election, which is Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. To learn more about how to vote absentee or request your own absentee ballot, visit nmvote.org. 🗳️

10/08/2024

🗳️ Yesterday, New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative held a voter registration pop-up event at Highland High School. Today, Oct. 8, is the last day to register to vote or update your registration online at nmvote.org before the election.

Same Day Registration (SDR) and early voting will be available starting on Oct. 8 at the Bernalillo County Clerk's Annex. From Oct. 19 through Nov. 2, SDR and early voting access expands to all Early Voting Locations.

On Election Day itself, Nov. 5, SDR and voting will be available at Election Voting Locations from 7am to 7pm.

If you have more questions about registering to vote or casting your ballot (whether you plan to vote early, absentee, or on Election Day), check out the NMBVC website at nmbvc.org or visit nmvote.org. 🗳️

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1258 Ortiz SE
Albuquerque, NM
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