{"id":592,"date":"2006-09-19T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/secretary-of-state-wants-to-hire-independent-auditor-to-canvass-general-election-results\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:56:00","slug":"secretary-of-state-wants-to-hire-independent-auditor-to-canvass-general-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/secretary-of-state-wants-to-hire-independent-auditor-to-canvass-general-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of state wants to hire independent auditor to canvass general election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Vigil-Giron%2C%20Rebecca.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Vigil-Giron%2C%20Rebecca.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron has taken a lot of heat lately for her decision to remove Democrat Jeff Armijo from the auditor race. The Republican Party is still considering a lawsuit challenging her decision.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A proposal she made Monday makes a lot of sense in such a politically charged climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil-Giron wants to hire an outside auditor to prepare the statewide canvass of the Nov. 7 general election returns, according to an article from the Associated Press that you can read via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/apauditor09-18-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>. The canvass has traditionally been done by staffers in the secretary of state\u2019s office, but later reviewed by an independent accountant, the news service reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil-Giron is proposing the change in part because the state is moving to a paper-ballot system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cMoving to a new system, we just want to make sure that everything is done correctly,\u201d Vigil-Giron\u2019s spokesman, Ray Baray, told the news service. \u201cThe secretary just wants there to be transparency in this election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He also said an independent canvasser would ensure there are \u201cno politics whatsoever\u201d influencing the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil-Giron is asking the state Board of Finance for $200,000 to hire an auditing firm. The board will consider the request today. Baray told the news service the auditor would be selected through a competitive bidding process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This should help allay concerns of the Republican Party, but I doubt it will quell them entirely. They\u2019re pretty upset about the <st1:place st=\"on\">Armijo<\/st1:place> situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron has taken a lot of heat lately for her decision to remove Democrat Jeff Armijo from the auditor race. The Republican Party is still considering a lawsuit challenging her decision. A proposal she made Monday makes a lot of sense in such a politically charged climate. Vigil-Giron wants to hire [&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-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}