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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
UPDATE: NM Counties to Begin "Clearing" Voting Machines?
UPDATE: According to a post on Democratic Underground, the attorneys of record (Lowell Finley, John Boyd, David Garcia) filed an appeal to the original suit in District Court (different from the Supreme Court case and still open for appeal) and sent letters to the SoS and each of the 33 county election directors to make sure the machines could not be purged. As long as there's an active recount request, it's illegal to erase the previous election without a court order.
In addition, an ABC News affliate is reporting :
Green and Libertarian presidential candidates are still pursuing their legal fight for a ballot recount in New Mexico and plan to take their case to the state Court of Appeals. Lawyers for Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik say they intend to file a notice of appeal with the court.
Also, the Bernalillo County Clerk has now stated that the voting machines won't be cleared until the Supreme Court rules on the recount. Apparently it's all in the lawyers' hands now, so it's been requested that we stop calling county clerks and the secretary of state's office at this time. As it stands, the machines are being protected until the courts respond to the recount suits.
December 28, 2004 at 10:03 AM in Candidates & Races, Local Politics | Permalink
Comments
All of the voting machines and records should have been impounded election nite as a Kerry Blogger wrote when it was obvious some real shenanigans were going on including Iowa stopping the counting of votes around 1am due to the workers being exhausted - someone asked why they had no second shift on this Presidential Election nite that comes only every 4 years and I ask why since there were so many volunteers of every kind, and it was well known that there was a very heightened interest in this election and that would take more personnel and Iowa took 3 days to cook the books and finally report a supposed 10,000 vote "win" for bush. This stopping of the count at 1am Nov. 3 really should be investigated and questioned asked.
Thank you for the good work you are doing in New Mexico and I am outraged that they are considering breaking the law that states that all election material, records, ballots must be kept for 22 months after election.
Posted by: TateMatthews | Jan 4, 2005 12:16:27 AM
