More on NM Recount - How You Can Help: Training Monday, Recount Starts Tuesday

From Andrea and David:

Dear Friends,

There is going to be a recount in NM conducted by Help America Recount, a national non-partisan organization that was formed to ensure fair elections. This organization is also heading up the recount in Ohio which will begin on Monday. They are hoping that the recount in NM will begin on Tuesday.

The NM recount will have no effect on the outcome of the Presidential election. However, it is being held here to serve as an election "lab" because there are so many different types of voting machines, as well as paper ballots, that are used in the state. The information that can be compiled from the recount here will be studied and incorporated into the strategies for future elections.

Help America Recount held a recount training session yesterday (Saturday) for Bernalillo County at the Palo Duro Senior Center in Abq. Lowell Finley, the organization's election attorney from Berkeley, CA was asked about disqualified ballots. He said that in a recount any ballot that had been disqualified during the count could be disputed. This would include disqualified provisional ballots.

This recount is very important.

The recount in Bernalillo County is going to take the most time of all the counties. The recount in most of the other counties will be finished very quickly and some of the volunteers from those counties will be coming to help here. Until they arrive, we are going to need a lot of volunteers here especially in the first few days of the recount (beginning Tuesday of this week).

Please help and encourage family members and friends to also help.

There is going to be another recount training on Monday night. The recount observing and responsibilites are different from the original count observing so it's important to take the recount training. Call Steve Lucero, the Bernalillo County coordinator, for the time and location of that meeting: 710-8946.

If you aren't able to participate, please give a contribution. $114,000 has already been deposited with the state but the cost is going to be much higher.

You can get more information and make a contribution about Help America Recount at: https://helpamericarecount.org/

Thanks for your support on such short notice.