to highlight yet another election almost stolen (or clerically denied) because of
bad Ballot Definition Settings involving Straight Party Option, that BillBored and I keeping talking about.
(And nobody listens... :cry: )
And like the other two elections that were overturned I think this one involved ES&S OpScan.
Dispute over amended returns may delay final New Mexico certification
December 1, 2000
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Republicans said the 10 percent "undervote" was "significantly higher" than other New Mexico counties and asked for another check. That check determined that a glitch in the county's voting machines did not record presidential votes for ballots that were cast for a straight party ticket.
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/01/new.mexico.election/Meanwhile, 2004 had it's own troubles there, which are still subject to a lawsuit. This thread fell in my lap while googling.
New Mexico Was Blue: 18,659 Missing E-Votes
by ignatzmouse
In New Mexico, the election was very close. The official canvas at
http://www.sos.state.nm.us/PDF/Gensumm_04.pdf shows just a 5988 vote win for Bush over Kerry. But also in the canvas is evidence of 18,997 missing votes. If one takes the 775,301 total voters at the top of the canvas and subtracts the presidential totals of all candidates (Kerry 370,942; Bush 376,930; Cobb 1226; Peroutka 771; Badnarik 2382; Nader 4053), one will find a nearly 19,000 vote discrepancy. It has been known. The question is from where and how did the discrepancy occur.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=168x328#topAlso by by ignatzmouse on that thread are EIRS data showing the symptoms of
bad Ballot Definition Settings involving Straight Party Option, that BillBored and I keeping talking about.
(And nobody listens... :cry: )
EIRS E-Voting Incident Reports Confirm the Problem
Some compelling evidence that we have a problem. A slate of e-voting incidents in New Mexico as reported to EIRS
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation . Candidate switching, changing selection to "no vote," misalignment, and more...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=168&topic_id=328&mesg_id=339