Uncounted Rio Arriba County Ballots Raise Eyebrows... (half of ballots!)

[catgirl]

http://haussamen.blogspot.com/2008/02/uncounted-rio-arriba-county-ballots.html

The New Mexico Democratic Party caucus may be tainted by three ballot boxes that spent the night in the home of the Rio Arriba County party chair or the homes of other local election officials instead of being reported to the state party.


Those ballots still haven’t been counted, but they have been retrieved by the state party.


Several sources told me the ballot boxes spent the night at the home of Rio Arriba County Democratic Party Chair Theresa Martinez, whose state-lawmaker husband, Sen. Richard Martinez, endorsed Hillary Clinton. But Richard Martinez told Santa Fe New Mexican reporter Kate Nash that the boxes actually spent the night in the homes of three polling-place managers. He gave Nash no explanation for why the results from those ballots weren’t reported to the state party last night and why they were instead kept overnight in officials’ homes.


“The site managers locked them and they kept them and they took them to my wife this morning,” Nash quoted Richard Martinez as saying.



State party officials and Theresa Martinez have not returned my calls seeking comment.


The three ballot boxes from Rio Arriba County and a fourth from Sandoval County account for the 2 percent of precincts that haven’t yet reported results from Tuesday’s caucus. With about 200 votes separating Clinton and Barack Obama, that’s huge. We’re talking about the ballots from half the polling places in Rio Arriba County.

[whistle]

1. "Just cleaning up the ballots officer so they can be counted faster sir!"

:yoiks:

[Kittycat]

2. Oh what the heck?!?!

In this day and age - why on earth would anyone be so stupid as to do something like this?

So you know how this is going to play out.