Link: AP Centerpiece: Voters, poll workers question accuracy of lists - Las Cruces Sun-News.
ALBUQUERQUE—Weeks after New Mexico's messy Feb. 5 presidential caucus, voters and poll workers are questioning whether voter registration lists that the state provided to Democratic Party officials were outdated or incomplete. Democratic Party leaders have been criticized for their handling of the caucus, which was riddled with problems including too few ballots, long lines at polling places and an inordinately large number of provisional votes, which take longer to count.
The final tally for the election—won narrowly by Hillary Rodham Clinton—wasn't known until Feb. 14, nine days after balloting.
In interviews with The Associated Press, several voters and volunteer poll workers pinpointed problems with the voter lists at polling places—and raised the possibility that the trouble may have originated not with the party but with the voter lists Democratic organizers were provided by the Secretary of State's office and county clerks.
In Mora County, for example, where half the voters cast provisional ballots, about 1,000 Democrats were stripped of their party affiliation in the Secretary of State's databank and so were never given to the Democratic Party for the caucus list, County
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