Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Mary Herrera denying ballots to voters...
Yes - that's a strong claim - but it looks to be true. At Bernalillo County precinct 603 in Albququerque's NE Heights - where there are over 2400 registered voters, Herrera (who is also running for Secretary of State) only sent over 150 ballots. They ran out. A long time ago.
At a press conference today, Republicans called on Dem Clerk Mary Herrera to follow election law and get ENOUGH ballots at once out to the precincts where people are being turned away. Apparently, the same thing has happened in prectint 57 on Albuquerque's west side.
Mary Herrera's office has confirmed that they made a judgement call in sending over only 150 ballots to the Republcian heavy precinct 603. The Clerk's office sent over another 250 to try and alleviate the problem - a number NOBODY thinks is adequate.
And apparently this R heavy precinct had no provisional ballots available for the voters to use...a violation of federal election law.
more to come...
