Maggie Toulouse Oliver has dedicated her public career to protecting the right to vote and fighting restrictions on access to the ballot box. Now, she is running to ensure that integrity and public trust remain the cornerstone values of the Secretary of State’s office. Her top priority is to enact thoughtful, innovative reforms to New Mexico’s campaign finance system in order to hold elected officials, government employees, candidates, lobbyists and all political groups to the highest level of ethical standards and accountability.

Toulouse Oliver is an outspoken advocate for campaign finance and governmental ethics reform. She was raised in Albuquerque and has served that community first as an organizer, working to register, educate and mobilize tens of thousands of voters, and, since 2007, as Bernalillo County Clerk. Under her leadership, Bernalillo County made voting easier and more accessible, and became a national leader in modernizing the electoral process. In 2013, she testified before the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. The commission in 2014 cited as best practices Bernalillo County’s vote center work, their “My Voter Information” voter toolkit, and their “My Vote Center” mobile app.

Toulouse Oliver was named one of New Mexico Business Weekly’s “40 under 40” in 2012 and one of “30 Women to Watch” by MSNBC. In 2014 Democracy for America named her to the “Dean Dozen” and she earned Common Cause New Mexico’s “Best in Government 2015” award for her efforts to pass an online voter registration bill.