House Bill 453 has been introduced in the New Mexico legislature. Among other things, it moves the petition deadline for minor party nominee-petitions from mid-July to early June. New Mexico legislators seem blissfully oblivous to the need to abolish nominee-petitions. New Mexico is the only state in the nation which requires one petition to qualify the party, and then additional petitions for each of that new party’s nominees. The same system was declared unconstitutional in Maryland in 2003. Minor party representatives presented this information last year to a commission organized to reform the election laws. But the information seems to have fallen on deaf ears.