Link: AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: New Mexico Voter List Mystery Deepens.
The mystery of what went wrong in New Mexico’s Super Tuesday Democratic Caucus deepened on Friday. Party officials on background said they absolutely were given a bad voter list from the Secretary of State – whose spokesman, in turn, defended the database prepared by ES&S, one of the nation’s large private election vendors.
Meanwhile, election experts watching the New Mexico debacle, where the Democratic Party underestimated voter turnout, consolidated precincts – causing confusion and long lines - and is now verifying and counting 17,000 provisional ballots, are not sure if those conditions alone, or a bad voter list, or both, was to blame for the nation’s highest rate of issuing provisional ballots in years.
Either way, the ongoing story is a cautionary tale for what not to do in November’s presidential election.
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