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Republican commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote

Otero county commissioner Couy Griffin at the federal court house in Washington, where he was convicted of entering the Capitol grounds on January 6.
The Otero county commissioner, Couy Griffin, at the federal courthouse in Washington, where he was convicted of entering the Capitol grounds on January 6. Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP


New Mexico’s secretary of state on Tuesday asked the state supreme court to order the Republican-led commission of rural Otero county to certify primary election results after it refused to do so over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines.

The request by Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, came a day after the three-member Otero county commission, in its role as a county canvassing board, voted unanimously against certifying the results of the 7 June primary without raising specific concerns about discrepancies.

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