I walked my precinct about two months ago. List in hand I tried to help the precinct chair enlist some much needed support from the Democracts in our neighborhood. I met some receptive neighbors. I had some doors slammed in my face. I am pretty thick skinned so the negative reactions to our grassroots campaign didn't bother me. Something else did bother me though.
My name wasn't on my precinct list.
Neither were some of my neighbors who I knew were Democrats. We had all consistently voted so these omissions concerned me.
Why talk about these omissions today? Because New Mexico is having trouble with their counts from Super Tuesday. I personally know of five voters whose names did not show up on the voter rolls when they went to cast their ballots on Tuesday. They hadn't recently moved and they all had voted in the last election. There was no reason for their names to be missing. I thought of the list that I had used to do my canvassing with months ago.
Why are these names missing? Is the database corrupted in this state? I don't know where the voter rolls were pulled from for this election but it appears 100's, if not 1000's, of voters were left off voting rolls. Leaving voters off the rolls makes for provisional ballots. We still have 17,000 uncounted provisional ballots. How many of these voters were left off a voting roll because the database was flawed? I don't know to what extent the local county clerks were involved in disseminating voting information; this may be a problem that only the Democratic party owns. Regardless, we all need the answers. The integrity of our caucus is at stake.
Aside from voters' names not being on the voter rolls, there are even more stories circulating all over the state about various mishaps and voting concerns.
I've listed some sites that are offering keen insight into the New Mexico caucus and the not-so-end results.
Democracy for New Mexico
Heath Haussamen on New Mexico politics
Brad Blog
and FBIHop's blog
Wish us luck.