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Signature probe

Claims of forged signatures in the campaign to recall District 9 Councilor Don Harris are now being investigated by the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department.

Sheriff Darren White said the City Clerk's Office on Friday asked his department to examine the complaint.

Harris on Thursday joined nine residents of a Four Hills mobile home park who claimed their signatures were forged on the petitions that got his recall on Tuesday's ballot.

James Lowe, chairman of New Mexicans for Democracy, the group leading the recall effort, has said he didn't believe the claims but would support the prosecution of anybody found guilty of forgery.

White said a detective on Monday will interview the person who filed the complaint. He asked that anybody else in the district who believes their signatures were forged contact his office.

Call to complain

The Rey Garduño campaign in City Council District 6 on Friday said some voters who received a controversial "push-poll" phone call earlier in the week filed a complaint with the City Clerk's Office.

Recipients of the call said they were asked which of the district's four candidates they support. If the person was undecided or supported Garduño, they were asked if they knew that Garduño was once cited for shoplifting.

Garduño and several of the people who received the calls said the person calling either declined to identify which campaign they were from, or would claim they were with the "elections board" or some other entity.

Candidate Joanie Griffin has acknowledged that it was her campaign behind the calls, but denied that the callers were being evasive. She said the script for the calls discloses her campaign as the sponsor.