Elected officials and candidates for office have until the end of Tuesday to file their latest campaign finance reports with the New Mexico Secretary of State's Office.
The reporting period covers spending and donations received during the last six months. Even though state law doesn't require it, the office's ethics bureau plans to audit a random sampling of the filings this time around.
New Mexico's campaign finance reporting system remains in the spotlight due to the case of embattled Secretary of State Dianna Duran and a few other lawmakers whose spending and reporting has been questioned in recent months.
Duran, the state's top elections official, is facing charges that she allegedly misused campaign donations and filed false reports. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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