Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) — Two lawsuits were filed claiming that Democrat Cindy Nava should not be allowed to run for the State Senate seat in District 9. The suits based on petition forms used to qualify Nava for the ballot listed her address in the town of Bernalillo as being in Bernalillo County, not Sandoval County. The technical error will not keep her off the ballot, with Judge Allison Martinez dismissing both complaints after a nearly three-hour hearing on Tuesday. Democratic County Commissioner Katherine Bruch and former District 9 State Sen. John Sapien, also a Democrat, were named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit that asked Martinez to invalidate all of the signatures nominating Nava. Audrey Trujillo, a Republican candidate for District 9, also filed a similar lawsuit.
