Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics: There's no proof of widespread voter fraud, but the system does allow for potential misdeeds

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Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics: There's no proof of widespread voter fraud, but the system does allow for potential misdeeds:

With all the uproar about alleged voter fraud, I thought it might be interesting to look back at the 2004 election, which is often the springboard for such allegations.   

Kate Nelson of the Albuquerque Tribune summed up the political climate at the time of the 2004 election well in a Jan. 29, 2005 article:    “(It was alleged that) apolitical slackers in search of the $7-a-voter bounty some groups were paying simply opened phone books to borrow the fill-in-the-blanks necessities,” she wrote. “County clerks were deluged with good forms and bad. The election was looming. An unsuccessful lawsuit demanded that at least some voters show some form of identification.”   

State Sen. Rod Adair, a Roswell Republican, predicted that thousands of fraudulent voters would flood the polls,” Nelson wrote. “U.S. Attorney David Iglesias trumpeted his formation of a nonpartisan election fraud task force a steely-eyed squad of enforcers to root out every electoral miscreant.”

--Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics