From nmpolitics.net:

Now we learn that Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office thinks it has a right to conceal from the public an e-mail from a county official requesting additional voter registration forms and another from a nonprofit inquiring about a possible endorsement of a piece of legislation.

This appears to be either a flagrant disregard for the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act or a sign of incompetence. Such e-mails are, without question, public records.

I’m talking about the more than 400 pages of e-mails the Secretary of State’s Office released last week that were full of redactions. KOB-TV in Albuquerque and The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Tuesday that at least some of the information that was redacted appears to be, in the words of The New Mexican, “innocuous.”

One of the e-mails that was almost entirely redacted before being provided to the news outlets turned out to be an e-mail exchange in which the Santa Fe County elections director requested more Spanish-language voter registration forms from Herrera’s office.

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