{"id":3708,"date":"2008-09-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/herreras-office-sends-erroneous-info-to-thousands\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:00:00","slug":"herreras-office-sends-erroneous-info-to-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/herreras-office-sends-erroneous-info-to-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrera&#8217;s office sends erroneous info to thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SMrkHQOB1ZI\/AAAAAAAAIss\/cm-bWgC6N1Y\/s1600-h\/Herrera,+Mary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SMrkHQOB1ZI\/AAAAAAAAIss\/cm-bWgC6N1Y\/s200\/Herrera,+Mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245255529290388882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/sos-SecBio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Herrera\u2019s<\/a> office didn\u2019t quite get it right in sending voters information on how to vote in the upcoming Nov. 4 election, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/121042514517newsstate09-12-08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Journal provided several examples of bad information included on the mailings sent out by Herrera\u2019s office:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> voters were given an e-mail address to request an absentee ballot for an employee who hasn\u2019t worked at the clerk\u2019s office in two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 Some 88 voters who usually vote in Radium Springs were erroneously told in the mailers that their polling site is now in Anthony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 Another 711 voters in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">La Mesa<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> were given the wrong address for their polling place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 Many voters in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> were given the wrong polling location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 Some 765 voters in <st1:city st=\"on\">Roswell<\/st1:city> were given the wrong polling location, and some of the mailers misspelled <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Chaves<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, using a \u201cz\u201d instead of an \u201cs.\u201d The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roswell-record.com\/main.asp?FromHome=1&amp;TypeID=1&amp;ArticleID=31978&amp;SectionID=49&amp;SubSectionID=112\" target=\"_blank\">Roswell Daily Record<\/a> also has more on this snafu, reporting that thousands of voters in that county were given erroneous information about their polling locations, including wrong ZIP codes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 In <st1:placename st=\"on\">San Juan<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype>, about 500 voters were given a nonexistent address to their traditional polling place, a <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Farmington<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Journal said more than 7,000 voters &#8212; minus those approximately 100,000 who were given the wrong e-mail address in Do\u00f1a Ana County &#8212; were given incorrect information on the forms they received by mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Herrera took \u201cfull responsibility\u201d in an interview with the Journal. But taxpayers are going to pay for it. Corrected mailers are being sent out, the Journal reported. Herrera said she has the money in her budget to cover the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mary Herrera\u2019s office didn\u2019t quite get it right in sending voters information on how to vote in the upcoming Nov. 4 election, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting. The Journal provided several examples of bad information included on the mailings sent out by Herrera\u2019s office: \u2022 Do\u00f1a Ana County voters were given an [&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-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","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=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}