Marshall Fischer, 40, of Silver City, N.M. was taken into police custody on Election Day after he allegedly voted at a polling place in Santa Clara, N.M., obtained a provisional ballot at the same location and announced he was trying to test for voter fraud. Police declined to release his name until this week when the Grant County District Attorney's Office charged him with the fourth-degree felony.

Their proposal would require the city to hold a second election – a “runoff” – anytime a candidate fails to win 50 percent in the initial round of voting. Under the current system, the candidate with the most votes wins outright if he or she has at least 40 percent of the vote.

Several of Martinez’s top-ranking staffers were ordered to testify in the case, which also played a role in fueling a controversy over the use of private email accounts by public officials.

In part, that was because one of Martinez’s deputy chiefs of staff forwarded a State Police report on Flynn to the governor’s personal account. However, Martinez claimed in July she never received the message because the account had been hijacked.

Surveys can be useful. So can beer, but I hear tell it’s sometimes used excessively, somewhat blunting its usefulness. Right now, we in APS are on a multi-day survey bender, drinking a case of Likert Scale a day on subjects as vital to education as an unpopped zit and full of acronyms that only increase their glandular meaninglessness: EPSS, PLC, etc.

The decision was announced Tuesday, and the new deadline to submit applications is Jan. 18, 2013. City Attorney James Babin will continue acting as city manager, as he has since former City Manager James Jimenez was forced to retire in July, according to the release.

Move over, Sarah Palin. Greta Van Susteren seems to have a new BFF and this one just happens to be another Republican female governor in the spotlight as a potential national candidate: New Mexico's Governor Susana Martinez.