what could go wrong?
NM was the state that took a week recounting it's vote before narrowly reversing the
election night results and awarding it's electoral votes to kerry.
Counties Slammed by Voter Requests
County clerks around New Mexico said Thursday that they're being bombarded with new voter registrations and requests for absentee ballots as the clock ticks toward next week's voter-registration deadline.
"Colossal," Lynn Ellins, Doña Ana County elections bureau supervisor, said of the numbers.
"We're not even counting them. We're measuring them by the feet," Sante Fe County's chief deputy for elections, Denise Lamb, said of the growing stack of absentee ballot requests now in her office.
The number of New Mexicans registered to vote — more than 1.1 million as of Sept. 10 — has already eclipsed the number of voters registered before the last presidential election, in 2004. And clerks said the number of people eligible to cast ballots in this year's general election, which features a presidential contest and races for four open congressional seats, continues to swell.
"We're still getting registrations in, hand over fist. Right now, we have 15,000 cards outstanding to process," said Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver. "We're definitely getting the last-minute push."
Tuesday will mark the close of voter registration for the Nov. 4 election. County clerks that day also will begin mailing out absentee ballots to those who have requested them, and clerks will continue to send out absentee ballots through Oct. 31.
More
