SANTA FE (KRQE) – Every election season, voters get bombarded with political ads. Whether it’s on TV, radio or straight to their mailboxes, many ads are negative. But one lawmaker says it’s time to monitor those campaign ads to determine if they’re true or false.

State Sen. Howie Morales believes voters are fed up with the mudslinging and all of those attack ads and that it’s time to bring in the truth police.

“People are tired of the attack ads,” said Morales, a Democrat from Silver City.

He introduced Senate Bill 675, the Truth in Political Advertising Act.

“When it comes to campaign advertising, it seems that it’s so easy to go in to mislead the voter, put information out that is flat out not true, and all I’m trying to do here is humbly try to bring integrity back to the election process and campaign advertisement side of it,” said Morales.

“Long term is that we would have the ability for possibly our three universities, our research universities, to take every ad that’s put out there and really just look and see as for the verification of how truthful that it is,” he said.

Read more here: http://krqe.com/2015/02/24/bill-introduced-to-grade-truth-in-nm-political-ads/