http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news04/110904_news_vote1.shtml
Out of 13,000 provisional and in-lieu-of ballots, Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera said today she has only qualified 3,000 as legitimate votes.
"We have about eight boxes that didn't qualify," Herrera said today. "They were not registered to vote."
Another 2,000, she said, were in a "questionable" category, and would be reviewed and certified today.
Provisional ballots were the final hang-up for Bernalillo County in counting votes for the 2004 election.
The paper ballots are given to people who show up on Election Day but whose voter information does not appear immediately on the voter registration lists. Likewise, in-lieu-of ballots are given to voters who applied for absentee ballots but who did not receive one by the time Election Day rolled around.
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One question Herrera asked was whether or not she could open the inner envelope of a provisional ballot's two-envelope package to find correct identification documents not provided on the outer envelope.
In her letter to Herrera, Vigil-Giron said unless required identification documents were on the outer envelope, the ballot should be disqualified and the inner envelope could not be opened.
In addition, Vigil-Giron told Herrera that just signing the outer envelope was not a substitute for providing proper identification.
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