NewMexico--98% reporting with H behind O by 71 votes !!

[adapa]

Barack Obama 65,036 48% 0
Hillary Clinton 64,965 48% 0


98% precincts reporting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660914

am I missing something? when is a recount automatically triggered?

[jsamuel]

1. Clinton ahead of Obama by less than 120 now

http://www.krqe.com/

[REDFISHBLUEFISH]

4. HILLARY 08!

Getting a state called for her Today woud be nice!

Keeps you in the news cycle!

[ronnykmarshall]

17. 117 now

[HughMoran]

2. Good thing it's not winner tak all huh?

They'd be recounting those for days :D

[adapa]

6. I thought this was all about the little green check next the name

don't go changing the rules on me

:silly:

[MoonRiver]

3. They're not recounting. They are counting the provisional ballots

cast last night. At least from the information I've heard.

[Donk Yore]

5. from reading other posters suggestions

This appears to have the most up-to-date info:

edit to provide good link:

http://www.krqe.com/

[splat]

7. It's from 1:15 last night; they've just started counting again today

[adapa]

10. thanks, are you in NM or familier with their processes?

[splat]

13. Nope, I just went to bed looking at that screen but here's the process

from Albuquerque Journal

State Democratic Party Chairman Brian Colon told The Associated Press this morning that there were an estimated 16,870 provisional ballots to be counted, and that the counting would not begin until noon today (not at 9 a.m. as was earlier reported).

Colon couldn't say how long it would take to count the provisionals -- ballots given to voters who show up at the wrong site or to those who had asked for absentee ballots but signed an affidavit saying they didn't return it, the AP reported.

Statewide, provisional ballots accounted for 10 to 12 percent of all votes cast, Colon told the AP.

Meanwhile, a little more than 100 votes separated Clinton, the narrow front-runner, from Obama -- 65,845 votes for Clinton, or 43 percent, to 65,729 or 42.9 percent for Obama -- with 180 of 184 precincts reporting, the AP said.

Colon told the AP that results from four precincts were still being delayed this morning -- three from Rio Arriba County and one from Sandoval County.

[Jim__]

8. Looks like they'll be splitting the New Mexico delegates - n/t

[Alter Ego]

9. It really doesn't matter at this point

What will matter is the delegate count, and because they're so close they'll end up splitting them equally.

[adapa]

11. It's about the little green check--lol--come on-

I understand what you're saying but a big deal has been made about how many states each won, that's what makes it relevant.

[mohc]

12. Actually

Due to the fact that Clinton won the one odd numbered delegate district, and there are an odd number of at-large delegates, Clinton will win by 2 if she is ahead state-wide, and they will split the delegates if Obama wins. Districts 1 and 3 have 6 delegates, Obama won those, but they will be split 3-3 because they were so close. District 2 has 5 delegates, and Clinton won there, so it will go 3-2 for her.

[adapa]

14. thanks for the great information- I'm little silly due to lack of sleep

[Fresh_Start]

15. http://www.krqe.com/

this seems to be more recent (based on the total votes are higher though both say 98%)

Its a nail biter

[Fresh_Start]

16. thousands of provisional ballots to check

don't know what the percent of conversion from provisional to votes so really don't know what it means

[adapa]

18. link , Provisional ballots being counted at 12 noon-

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Clinton-Obama Count Continues

By Jeff Jones and Leslie Linthicum
Journal Staff Writers
Fewer than 120 votes separated Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in New Mexico's Democratic presidential caucus early this morning and the race will be decided by thousands of provisional ballots being tallied beginning today.
Clinton had 65,845 votes to Obama's 65,728 votes with complete but unofficial results from 31 counties and incomplete tallies from two counties at 1 a.m. today.
The totals did not include more than 16,000 provisional ballots that state Democratic Party workers will begin going through one at a time today.
Provisional ballots are ballots given to people who did not vote at their designated caucus sites and whose names could not be located on polling rolls in the Democratic Party-run presidential caucus.
Clinton won most of the counties, but Obama took Santa Fe County by a large margin and won Bernalillo County.
The vote count came slowly in part because the turnout took party officials by surprise.
About 50 Clinton supporters gathered at the Garduño's on the Green near Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque on Tuesday, but the party ended without a winner.
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish decided to leave around 11:15 p.m., predicting that the results were "going to trickle in."
"I'm heartened by the fact she's done well in the smaller areas," said Denish, chairwoman of Clinton's New Mexico campaign.
The Obama party at the Santa Fe Hilton broke up about 10:30 p.m. It wasn't because of the delay in vote totals; it was because the campaign had to return rented audiovisual equipment it was using to show results on a big screen.
"It's a good night for Sen. Obama," Rep. Al Park of Albuquerque said, nonetheless.

Long waits
There were still voters in line in some polling places at 9 p.m. in New Mexico's Democratic presidential caucus— two hours after the polls were to close— and vote counts were just beginning to trickle in at 10 p.m.
<snip>
Exceeding expectations
State Democratic Party Chairman Brian Colón said the party was overwhelmed with its voter turnout Tuesday.
Although he had earlier predicted a turnout of 30,000 to 40,000, he said the party prepared "to have 150,000 people participate in this caucus— and it appears we might have exceeded that."
If 150,000 ballots were cast, it would be a 50 percent increase from the party's 2004 Democratic presidential caucus, when 104,000 votes were cast.
All across the state Tuesday, Democrats braved snow, cold and long lines to vote."

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/283001nm02-06-08.htm

[book_worm]

19. HRC may actually pull out a slim win in a state she led in polls by 20-pt by!! Yippie!!

[adapa]

20. It amazes me that a Democrat can dis a state who had voters waiting at the polls for over 3 hours

after the they closed. Where have you been for the last 10 years---
Plus they have 16,870 thousand votes not counted--

Don't ya think this might be a little important in a swing state come the GE?!?