Voting

Former elections chief A.J. Salazar raised concerns about the lack of a contract for the storage of voting machines at the private facility during a March 12 interview with The Independent. But chain-of-custody paperwork and regular inventories are kept for those machines and shared with the Secretary of State’s office—and it is unclear how their integrity could be compromised, AES President Terry A. Rainey told The Independent this week.

Legislation that would allow a person to register to vote then immediately cast a ballot at early voting sites require that the registration info be entered into the state online voter database on the spot so that county clerks can verify the person isn’t registered and voting elsewhere in the same election.

At least five people in the Roswell area, all registered Democrats, received phone calls over the weekend telling them to vote on Nov.8, Carter Bundy of the New Mexico Federation of Labor and Election Protection tells NMI.

New Mexico voting rights advocates reported this morning that there have been few problems reported so far on this election day. Nationally, the McCain/Palin campaign held a conference call with reporters on the subject of vote fraud—without saying anything about any actual vote fraud. And poll workers in Albuquerque’s North Valley blame early voting for a slow day at the polls.

Have you requested your absentee ballot but not received it yet? No worries.
New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office has instructed county clerks to allow folks like you to vote in person at early voting locations.
In a letter dated Oct. 29 to county clerks throughout the state, Bureau of Elections Director Gerald Gonzalez said [...]