ABQjournal: State Will Likely Canvass Election:
SANTA FE— The Secretary of State's Office will likely end up handling the canvass of results of next week's general election rather than hiring an independent auditing firm.
The office had planned to use an auditor or accounting firm to perform the canvass rather than follow its past practice of having the office staff compile the statewide election returns and check for possible discrepancies in tallies.
Two Albuquerque firms submitted bids, but neither was accepted because they didn't meet the requirements of the request for proposals, Ray Baray, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office, said Monday.
The bids were reviewed last week, but Baray said he could not publicly disclose the reasons why they were rejected.
A $200,000 loan was approved in September by the Board of Finance to allow Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron to hire an independent auditing firm to canvass election results.
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