Just in from green party Cobb re: New Mexico:
http://www.votecobb.org
MEDIA ADVISORY
For immediate release: January 3, 2005
Contact: Rick Lass, NM Coordinator at 505.920.0540
Blair Bobier, Media Director at 414.364.1596
RECOUNT ADVOCATES TO HOLD SANTA FE PRESS CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY
Rick Lass, the New Mexico coordinator for Green Party
presidential candidate David Cobb, will be joined by a renowned expert in statistical analysis and the lead attorney for the recount litigation, in a press conference to be held on Tuesday, January 4, at Noon, in the rotunda of the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe. The speakers will discuss the CPA report, commissioned by the New Mexico Secretary of State's office, which found numerous errors and discrepancies with the counting and reporting of New Mexico's presidential vote.
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"Problems with the New Mexico general election have been documented by a number of independent reports, including one commissioned by the Secretary of State. We need a recount of the vote to clearly identify those problems and have them solved before the next presidential election. It's time for the Governor to stop stonewalling this process so we can get the recount done before the upcoming local elections," said Rick Lass.
John Skelly, an expert in advanced quantitative analysis and research director of the Sausalito, California firm, King, Brown & Partners, Inc., will address the CPA report and offer a statistical analysis of it and other information suggesting that a recount is necessary. Lowell Finley, general counsel for Help America Recount and the attorney representing David Cobb and Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik in their pending litigation before the New Mexico Court of Appeals, will also be speaking at the press conference.
Lowell Finley, general counsel for Help America Recount and the attorney representing David Cobb and Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik in their pending litigation before the New Mexico Court of Appeals, will also be speaking at the press conference.
Problems with the New Mexico presidential election included malfunctioning voting machines and an unusually high number of under-votes (ballots cast with no votes for president) and "phantom" votes (more votes for president recorded than actual voters).
For more information about the Cobb-LaMarche campaign and its
recount efforts in Ohio and New Mexico, see http://www.votecobb.org.