Touch screen machine
switching of vote in the presidential and other races,
machine glitches and
malfunctions, Reports of widespread systematic dirty tricks,
misinformation and manipulation by election officials to reduce the
vote of minority
Indians and
Hispanics in heavily minority majority precincts. Student voting
problems,
Phantom votes (more votes
than voters) in some counties, registration problems,
absentee ballot
problems, etc.
http://shadowbox.i8.com/newmex.pdf
http://www.helpamericarecount.org/NewMexicoData/NewMexicoGeneralElection.pdf
http://www.flcv.com/bernalil.html
http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html
(Kerry vote defaults to Libertarian on some machines; straight Dem ticket defaults Pres. Vote to Bush or blank, glitches and malfunctions, systematic dirty tricks & voter suppression of minorities, registration problems, absentee ballot problems, polling place changes and misinformation, confusion, phantom votes) http://www.flcv.com/bernalil.html
Dona Ana County http://www.flcv.com/donaana.html
Touch screen default,
glitches; possible fraud or misfeasance by poll workers,
Machine problems
and long lines, student voting
problems
Polling Place
problems (proper polling place confusion, confusion over who voted early or
by absentee ballot, voter intimidation by poll challengers)
Registration problems
(clerical mistakes on form, unprocessed forms, some forms filled out not
turned in, confusion over proper polling place)
Absentee ballot problems (many did not receive requested Abs, some received Abs who did not request them, some who didn’t request or use AB had to vote provisional, some who didn’t get AB not allowed to vote provisionally)
Touch screen switching/defaults/glitches, systematic dirty tricks affecting registrations or causing polling place confusion, polling place problems, registration problems (clerical errors and unprocessed forms), absentee ballot problems (some didn’t receive requested absentees, many who didn’t ask for absentee listed as requesting AB and many who didn’t get or use AB had to vote provisionally, some not allowed to cast provisional ballot.
Rio Arriba County http://www.flcv.com/rioarrib.html
Touch screen default to blank, dirty tricks, polling place confusion, improper purges of voter rolls, not enough provisional vote forms, failure to allow voters to vote provisionally, registration problems, absentee ballot problems(some requested but never received AB, some did not request of receive AB and either not allowed to vote or had to vote provisionally)
Sandoval County (touch screen switching from Kerry to Bush, machine problems, power outage, intimidation by poll workers, improper purge of voter rolls, registration and absentee problems) http://www.flcv.com/sandoval.html
Student Voting Problems http://www.flcv.com/studentv.html
Phantom votes
Secretary of
State Rebecca Vigil-Giron failed to find -- and then
denied the existence of -- 2,087 phantom
votes in the certified results of the presidential election in
http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/278376elex12-24-04.htm
To view the
phantom-vote example cited in the story, go to the Bernalillo canvass report on
the SoS website. Look on
page 41 to see the 318 absentee votes for president in Precinct 512. Look in
the last column on page 69 to see the number of absentee ballots -- 166. 158
more votes than ballots cast means 158 phantom votes. The report cited in the
story is here.
http://www.votersunite.org/info/NewMexico2004ElectionDataReport.pdf
Suppression of minority vote
Evidence of false voter drives, disinformation phone calls and fliers that sought to selectively remove
minority voters from rolls and prevent them from voting. Several instances
in
http://www.helpamericarecount.org/NewMexicoData/NewMexicoGeneralElection.pdf
Partisan officials
A Republican
presiding judge in one particular precinct was in charge of several hundred bad
ballots. The problem, County Clerk Mary Herrera said, was that the bad ballots,
with affidavits inside, were largely Democrats. The good ones were for
Republican voters."It made us kind of
sick," Herrera said. "It was too obvious http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3828
Rejected Provisional Votes
Bernalillo
County Clerk Mary Herrera says roughly 25 percent of the provisional ballots in
Bernalillo and
http://abqjournal.com/elex/246845elex10-22-04.htm
http://www.flcv.com/bernalil.html
http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html
Key Election Evidence
Destroyed
_http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0501/S00192.htm_
(http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0501/S00192.htm)
Press Release: Help
Help
For immediate release:
Key Election Evidence
Destroyed
A civil lawsuit, filed on
behalf of eight
claims that the certified results of the 2004
demonstrate that voting machines used in the election
malfunctioned
seriously enough to affect the outcome of election races,
including the
race for President.
The lawsuit was filed Friday
in the state Second Judicial District
Court in
Albuquerque
and
are also representing Libertarian Party presidential
candidate Michael
Badnarik and Green party presidential candidate David Cobb in
a separate
recount request, which is still being litigated in the New
Mexico Court of
Appeals.
Election officials are
statutorily prohibited from clearing voting
machines while a recount request or other election contest is
pending. On
January 12, Secretary of
State Rebecca Vigil-Giron authorized county
Election Directors to erase
the voting machines used in November..
Patricia Rosas Lopategui, a plaintiff in the civil suit, said, "The
government of
to our votes. First they put up roadblocks to stall the
recount request and
now they want to destroy evidence vital to a voting
rights suit filed by
so many problems have been shown with them is beyond
Sanchez of Santa Fe, also a
plaintiff in the suit filed Friday.
The voters' suit requested a
Temporary Restraining Order to secure voting
machines and software in order to determine exactly how and
why some
machines failed to accurately record and count votes. On
Saturday, the
court denied the motion for a temporary restraining order.
Counties have
already begun clearing the voting machines.
Attorney Lowell Finley noted,
Monday is the day the nation honors Martin
Luther King. Jr., who fought
for voting rights for all Americans.
Forty-five years after his
death, New Mexicans are still battling for the
rights Dr. King championed.
The suit seeks to prove
violations of the voting rights and civil rights of
citizens under the
strongly suggests that electronic voting machines failed to
record a
significant number of lawful votes, particularly in precincts
with Native
American
and Hispanic pluralities. More
than 21,000 ballots statewide
failed to record a vote in the presidential race. 77% of
these ballots were
cast on paperless voting machines. President BushГ’s margin of victory in
ENDS
The Help America Recount Fund
is a 527 organization affiliated with the
Audit the Vote network and
National Ballot Integrity Project, a consortium
of national, state and local organizations committed to
the transparency
and integrity of our elections. The sole purpose of the
Help America
Recount Fund is to provide
support for and citizen financing of
presidential ballot recounts, election contests and lawsuits to
audit the
2004
election. The Help America Recount
Fund is a not-for-profit
organization, and is not affiliated with any political party.
