State officials are acknowledging that emails from the domain belonging to the Democratic Party of New Mexico were first blocked from state servers after being identified as spam four years ago.
Officials with the state Department of Information Technology detailed the cause of the email flap Monday as the party called for an investigation.
Party spokesman Scott Tillman says Democrats first noticed emails being returned in July after requesting information from the secretary of state's office.
The party took aim at the office. The office denied doing anything to block the emails, saying it was the IT Department that maintained the state government email system.
IT officials said the party's domain was flagged for spam activity in 2011 after an employee in the General Services Department repeatedly received emails despite asking to be removed from the list.
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