New Mexico vote completed, Bush still on top

[rodeodance]

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New Mexico vote completed, Bush still on top
Rodger Payne forwards us the following news from New Mexico. Results won't be certified until Tuesday, with President Bush still the winner... with a margin of 6,047 votes according to Tuesday's Associated Press tally. The President's lead thus narrowed considerably with the counting of the provisional ballots, yet not close enough for hopeful Dems. (Those 5 electoral votes wouldn't have turned over the election. But they certainly would have made Bill Richardson do a little jig in the middle of Santa Fe.)

And there were some smaller turnovers: in Dona Ana County, where Bush was the Election Day leader, Kerry edged out the president in the final count with 51 percent of the vote.)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Possible fraud in Valencia County

found thanks to badc0der. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=59271

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. error rate of 1.7% (442 votes added to 25,655 total)

now, how much did Bush win NM by?

[cyn2]

2. 86 ballots found Tuesday in a locked bathroom

After two weeks of controversy, lawsuits and national scrutiny, New Mexico's vote counting ended with 86 ballots being found Tuesday in a locked bathroom in the Doña County Courthouse.

http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/259386elex11-17-04.htm

A locked bathroom? Hello?

[MrUnderhill]

3. How many provisional ballots = how many gained Kerry votes???

It could be useful to see how accurate some assumptions have been re: how many votes Kerry could pick up in Ohio.

[Blue in the face]

4. Recount could be requested for 6 days

I can't remember who posted this link, but it's an excellent one.
http://www.electionline.org/site/docs/html/post-election_recount_-_contest_timetable.htm

If NM allows for a recount within 6 days, that would take us to Nov 29th. Has anyone heard rumblings of a recount there? I've seen that www.blackboxvoting.org has an investigation going there. Any word on how it's going?

On a second look, the site says 6 days after a county canvass. Can someone tell me what that means?

[BlueDog2u]

5. Recount It!

[masshole1979]

7. 6 working days/weekdays...

...or 6 calendar days?