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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Required Reading on Election Horrors in NM and Elsewhere
'Recipe for a Cooked Election' by Greg Palast in Yes! magazine. The article includes a compelling discussion of documented voting problems at Taos Pueblo and other parts of New Mexico.
September 12, 2006 at 09:00 AM in Election Reform & Voting | Permalink
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I'm tellin' ya.
There is a statistical dead heat between Patsy and Heather. Patsy is gonna lose because the election has to be swayed only a percent or two. These close races just make those corrupt election officials just lick their chops.
Posted by: qofdisks | Sep 13, 2006 12:37:10 PM
Greg Palast didn't mention Voter ID, as another reason many people weren't allowed to vote or used Provisional Ballots, which had a good chance of being rejected for errors. (They are complicated, like an absentee ballot, and were new to the voters and poll workers.) There were many new voters, especially Democrats, in 2004, who had to show an ID to vote. In some counties, voters whose names on their ID didn't match their registration exactly were rejected. I heard that the Secretary of State left this up to each County Clerk. After the election we went back and entered the names, precincts and reasons for all the rejected votes at the county Voting Machine warehouse.
Posted by: Michelle Meaders | Sep 15, 2006 10:50:26 AM
