What the hell is going on with NM? Where are the results?

[Colobo]

[NastyRiffraff]

1. They had ballot problems (too few)

Plus there was bad weather. Might be awhile

[K Gardner]

2. Ahhhh... there's the missing state ! Thanks Katz. Was driving me crazy.

[TygrBright]

3. It's against NM state law for any election results to be reported...

...until all ballots have been cast.

And we weren't well-prepared (in some districts) for the MASSIVE turnout!

People who were in line when the polls closed at 7:00 PM stood in line until after 10:00 PM to actually vote in Rio Rancho.

We learn from our mistakes.

Anyway. Sorry to keep y'all in suspense, I know it's been a real cliffhanger what's gonna happen to our massive delegate count. ;)

explicationally,
Bright

[NMDemDist2]

6. hiya Bright!! did you have to wait long in line?

we had lines most of the day but moved folks right along and luckily our people could wait inside and we even had chairs if folks needed to sit

:hi:

[TygrBright]

7. Not very long, but of course they lost my registration and I had to cast a provisional.

I suspect that the computer at the state what tells ya what your district and polling place should be did NOT get mine right. I came up okay on the registration rolls but I think I ended up at the wrong polling site.

Oh, well. It was great just to see all the people!

happily,
Bright

[goodgd_yall]

8. A friend of mine living in Santa Fe said the elections office was unhelpful

She thinks they might even deliberately set out to obstruct voters. She identified herself as a Democrat when she called. She said they gave her the most minimal information possible; it was like pulling teeth.

[NMDemDist2]

11. the Party ran the caucus, the election office had nothing to do with it and were

fairly clueless

we borrowed polling booths and ballot boxes and we have to have everything back by 9AM tomorrow even though they don't need em now until June

and our Clerk is a DEM!! I can't imagine how 'helpful' the Repuke clerks are being.....

[TygrBright]

14. Well, I wouldn't necessarily assume that...

...given the overall quality of "customer service" from just about any local government office in Santa Fe. We are pretty deep indigo blue here, so I imagine a GOPpie calling for information would have gotten about the same level of cheerful responsiveness.

That's why I got my information from the websites. Not a whole lot better, but less aggravating and no hold time.

philosophically,
Bright

[goodgd_yall]

10. Don't they hand count the vote out there?

[NMDemDist2]

12. we hand counted the caucus ballots, the State uses scanners for most elections n/t

[ursi]

4. Where is Richardson tonight?

[Donk Yore]

5. He was on MSNBC earlier

and reported his belief that even with crummy weather over many parts of the state, this was a record primary turnout.

[Maven]

9. Results are starting to come in on CNN now

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#NM

[NMDemDist2]

13. local results...

http://election.kob.com/

[blm]

15. What happened to votes in NM in 2004? Remember Richardson having the machines erased

when there were some major foulups being reported?

[NMDemDist2]

16. the state bought all new machines, optical scanners with paper ballots

it was a mess, but it's better now I think....

tonight however that is moot, as the caucus is run by the Democratic Party of NM and we hand counted all the ballots with party volunteers

[Donk Yore]

17. Now we're in business

Clinton

6,737

53%



15%
reporting

Obama

4,769

38%



Edwards

726

6%



Richardson

195

1%



Uncommitted

101

1%