"Common Cause New Mexico is calling for the resignation of newly elected US Rep. Yvette Herrell, who represents the state's 2nd Congressional District, after Herrell used her first speech on the House Floor to object to some states' electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
"In our democracy, voters decide who wins elections," Common Cause Executive Director Heather Ferguson said in a news release. "Congresswoman Herrell failed to follow the Constitution and her oath of office yesterday by voting to deny the will of the people."
Herrell, said Ferguson, proved [that] she "cannot carry out the duties of [the] office in our Democratic Republic and must immediately resign."
Meanwhile, State GOP Chairman Steve Pearce in a statement said the state party recognizes Congress' certification of the presidential election on Thursday [Jan. 7] but maintains "there are still too many unanswered questions surrounding the vote count, voting machines, drop boxes and absentee ballots in our presidential election. We have raised these issues in New Mexico, but our requests to the Secretary of State fell on deaf ears."
(In response, Secretary of State spokesman Alex Curtas told the Associated Press that Pearce and the state GOP "should be ashamed of themselves for continuing false narratives.")
And state House Republicans say they support Carlsbad Republican state Rep. Cathrynn Brown's bill to decertify New Mexico's vote for Biden.
Curtas also described Brown's bill as a nonstarter: "The act of trying to decertify the duly cast electoral college votes from New Mexico and silence the voices of the New Mexico voters who cast their ballots, has no basis in reality, legal or otherwise," he said. "The election is over. The electors cast their votes. Republican challenges have been heard by courts in New Mexico and all across the nation andhave been decisively rejected..."
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