Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran is fighting to keep her job amid a strong challenge from Democrat Maggie Toulouse Oliver.
Duran has run on a platform of pushing for voter ID measures to prevent what she says is regular voter fraud in New Mexico. The former Otero County clerk and a state lawmaker also says she's the more experienced candidate in the race.
But Oliver says the incumbent has wasted too much time on voter ID efforts at the expense of bigger-picture endeavors in the office. The Bernalillo County clerk says she's overseen elections in the state's largest county while Duran was only a clerk in a tiny county.
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