The Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office has had to reprimand poll challengers as six precincts and warned them that they will be removed if they continue to behave inappropriately, The New Mexico Independent is reporting.
From The Independent:
“There have been incidents at six precincts,” (Chief Deputy County Clerk Mario) Jimenez said. “At three locations, gentlemen were trying to handle voters’ ballots. At one, he was hovering by the scanner machine and took ballots, and then he — the challenger — placed ballots into the scanner for the voters. … At one location, Tom Baugh Elementary, a challenger was attempting to assist voters. Challengers are not allowed to act as poll workers like that.”
At other precincts, poll challenger repeatedly demanded that poll workers require photo identification from voters, Jimenez said.
“They were disruptive and extremely rude,” Jimenez said. “They told poll workers that they had to take ID from voters.”