SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The district attorney in Bernalillo County is reviewing an admission by a newly appointed state legislator that she committed voter fraud.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (https://bit.ly/1iZ0Av3 ) that Rep. Idalia Lechuga-Tena, who was born in Mexico and became a U.S. citizen in 2007, has admitted to voting in a city election in Albuquerque in 2003 and records show she voted in the Democratic primary election in 2004. The statute of limitations has expired since those events.
Lechuga-Tena says at the time she did not realize she had to be a citizen to vote. In an interview earlier this week she only acknowledged voting in 2003.
Bernalillo County commissioners this week appointed Lechuga-Tena to fill the vacant House District 21 seat in southeast Albuquerque.
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Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican, https://www.sfnewmexican.com
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