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New Mexico electors support Biden, as GOP sues to invalidate
By MORGAN LEEDecember 15, 2020 GMT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) Democratic electors in New Mexico cast their votes for Joe Biden on Monday as the Democratic president-elect cleared the 270-electoral-vote mark to formalize his presidential victory, amid new local protests and objections by Republicans to the voting process and outcome.
Biden won the statewide popular vote in New Mexico by a margin of nearly 11 percentage points over President Donald Trump. Democratic Party-appointed electors cast five Electoral College votes in favor of Biden on Monday.
That didn’t stop a group identified as Republican Party-appointed electors from gathering in a hallway of the state Capitol to sign papers indicating their support for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, in cooperation with two people who recorded video with their phones. State Republican Party spokesman Mike Curtis said the people were exercising free speech.
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