{"id":2879,"date":"2008-02-14T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/democratic-caucus-tally-is-again-in-doubt\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:54:00","slug":"democratic-caucus-tally-is-again-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/democratic-caucus-tally-is-again-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic caucus tally is again in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R7SAonrNjaI\/AAAAAAAAE9I\/XSwg4ELMmh8\/s1600-h\/Clinton,+Hillary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R7SAonrNjaI\/AAAAAAAAE9I\/XSwg4ELMmh8\/s200\/Clinton,+Hillary.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166896107834150306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>After announcing on Tuesday canvassed and supposedly final regular- and absentee-ballot numbers from last week\u2019s presidential caucus, the Democratic Party of New Mexico now isn\u2019t certain whether those numbers are accurate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As you can read in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2008\/feb\/14\/new-mexico-democrats-vote-count-totals-dont-add\/\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press article<\/a>, that further calls into question the integrity of the vote. It reinforces what <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/elections-should-be-run-by-governments.html\">I wrote on Wednesday<\/a> \u2013 that trained government workers should run elections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R7SApHrNjbI\/AAAAAAAAE9Q\/_DRj-9TV-O4\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R7SApHrNjbI\/AAAAAAAAE9Q\/_DRj-9TV-O4\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166896116424084914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The party\u2019s original, uncanvassed results gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> a 1,123-vote lead, 68,654 votes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> 67,531. Tuesday\u2019s announcement changed that. The party announced new and supposedly final results of 68,084 votes for <st1:city st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:city> and 67,010 votes for Obama, giving <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> a 1,074-vote lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But, as the Associated Press pointed out, the party\u2019s canvassed statewide totals didn\u2019t match its county-by-county totals. The county-by-county totals, according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/285174nm02-14-08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press article<\/a>, give <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> a 1,121-vote lead, 68,659 votes to Obama\u2019s 67,538. The party is now trying to figure out what\u2019s wrong with its count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To top it off, none of that accounts for the more than 17,000 provisional ballots that were cast. The party is in the process of counting the more than 8,000 that were qualified. The other 9,000 won\u2019t be counted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The bottom line? Who knows what the real numbers are. As I\u2019ve stated, I doubt the integrity of this vote, and I know many others who do as well, including a number of discouraged New Mexico Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For now I\u2019m going to go with the Associated Press numbers. Hopefully we\u2019ll get a final vote out of the party soon. It\u2019s supposed to report final numbers by Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing on Tuesday canvassed and supposedly final regular- and absentee-ballot numbers from last week\u2019s presidential caucus, the Democratic Party of New Mexico now isn\u2019t certain whether those numbers are accurate. As you can read in this Associated Press article, that further calls into question the integrity of the vote. It reinforces what I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}