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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/13/votes.elsewhere/

Recounts might spread to New Mexico, Oregon
November 14, 2000
Web posted at: 7:35 a.m. EST (1235 GMT)
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Despite the added boost for Gore in the second-most populous county in southern New Mexico, officials said the winner of the state was still too close to call.

Earlier, election officials turned up two ballots in a warehouse where some precinct supply boxes were stored and brought 16 locked boxes back to be opened by a presiding judge.
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A recount seemed likely in New Mexico, though its five electoral votes alone would not affect the outcome of the presidential race. With about 570,000 votes cast statewide, Bush led by a four-vote margin, according to Monday figures from Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron's office.

Gore once led in New Mexico by 7,000 votes, and was considered the winner on Election Night. But computer glitches, more than 250 missing ballots and complaints from several hundred residents who said they didn't receive absentee ballots resulted in the evaporation of Gore's lead.

Republican attorneys are requesting that state police impound early-voting and absentee ballots in case of a challenge or recount -- a move New Mexico Democrats denounced. State Democratic Chairwoman Diane Denish called the Republicans' request "hypocritical."

Police seized ballots in seven counties during the weekend under orders from two state judges. Under New Mexico law, either party may request impoundment. It is then up to a judge to decide whether to grant the request.

Now that Bush is leading, Denish said, Republicans "suddenly want the ballot count to end." She says when they were losing, "they did everything they could to get questionable ballots counted.