Ruling expected on whether Dona Ana County judge can be on Democrats' primary ballot [View all]
A state district judge is expected to issue a decision Friday in the case of a magistrate judge disqualified from running for re-election in the Democratic Party primary after what she claims was a mix-up at a driver’s license office.
Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Samantha Madrid has said her voter registration was changed from Democrat to independent without her knowledge when she obtained a copy of her driver’s license last year.
Only when Madrid was preparing to file this month for re-election did the county clerk’s office inform her she could not run as a Democrat.
A lawyer representing Madrid argued she never intended to change her registration and that keeping her out of the primary election after about 500 Democrats had signed her nominating petition would disenfranchise those voters.
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