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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">King</p>                                <p class=\"imgtitle\">Jennings</p>           SANTA FE, N.M. (Legal Newsline) - New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he sees no legal reason why a group of candidates should be dropped from the state's primary election ballot.<br /><br />According to <a href=\"http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d9c599cff02b440494c562e620b14937/NM--Candidate-Filings/\" class=\"copy\">The Associated Press</a>, which obtained a copy of a memo from King to Secretary of State Dianna Duran, the attorney general pointed to past rulings.<br /><br />Those rulings suggest, King told Duran, that a state court wouldn't drop the 12 candidates, despite them leaving out some information from their filing papers.<br /><br />Duran had sent a letter, questioning whether she should declare the candidates filings' invalid, to King's office Thursday.<br /><br />The question was raised by state Rep. Thomas Garcia, a Democrat who filed to run against Sen. Pete Campos, a Democrat from Las Vegas, the AP reported.<br /><br />The candidates, including Senate President Tim Jennings, a Democrat from Roswell, did not list on their nominating petitions the district in which they are seeking to run.<br /><br />A change to state law now requires that the petitions include district designation, among other things.<br /><br />The petitions and their signatures are deemed invalid if any of the required information is not listed \"before the petition is signed by a voter,\" according to the AP.<br /><br />Jennings told the AP he did not know about the law change, and argued that the petition wasn't properly updated.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach Jessica Karmasek by email at jessica@legalnewsline.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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