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Guv’s office answers some questions, but not all, on Noel’s hiring

Started by nmindependent · 9 months ago

One of the questions the GOP has raised in requesting documents related to the secretary of state’s decision to hire the son-in-law of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall to be the state’s elections director is whether the governor was involved in the choice.
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  • thomasjames

    10 months ago

    It looks dishonest and shameful in both cases! So what's your point Heath? The voter deserve more!
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  • placitasroy

    10 months ago

    Jim Noel was the election observer who alerted officials to the 12,000-vote discrepancy in vote totals for the U.S. Representative race in 11/02. Although about 48,000 people had voted early on 212 Sequoia-supplied touch-screen computers at six sites in the county, the initial figures indicated that no race, not even for governor, showed a total of more than about 36,000 votes.

    Sequoia claimed its machines had not been properly programmed for the quantity of votes cast but that it re-ran the totals and no votes were lost. The Board finally certified but note before Commissioner Tom Rutherford accused Sequoia of a “cover-up,” and said it had never intended to tell NM officials about the problem. But serious questions still remain as to the accuracy of that 11/02 vote. Sequoia vote-counting machines are no longer used in NM
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  • thomasjames

    10 months ago

    And that changes the appearance of impropriety in the current situation how?
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