{"id":6039,"date":"2008-06-03T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2008-06-04T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T02:45:51","slug":"state-wide-computer-crash-cripples-voting-in-new-mexico-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6039","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Computer Crash Cripples Voting in New Mexico Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NewMexicoFlag_ESS.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">There was a very low-turnout state Primary Election in New Mexico today. And yet, it brought more November <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koat.com\/politics\/16479641\/detail.html\">tea leaves<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Computer problems affected ballot verification procedures in some counties across the state earlier Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State&#8217;s office started getting calls around noon from smaller counties saying their computer connection to Santa Fe wasn&#8217;t working. <strong>By 1 p.m., no county in the state was connected to the system that allows counties to access voter registrations and also report results<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCibola County also experienced some computer problems. Election officials there said they only had one computer to verify where people should go to vote, as <strong>all other computers crashed<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<p>Last we had checked (and no time to re-check for the moment), ES&#038;S ran the voter registration system in NM. During the state&#8217;s Democratic Caucus last February, thousands of voters were <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5742\">reportedly<\/a> dumped from the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5674\">newly-privatized<\/a> voting rolls. If you live in New Mexico, or anywhere else, please <a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/electionstrikeforce\/2008\/05\/take_action_in_your_state.html\">check your voter registration<\/a> status soon!<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koat.com\/politics\/16479641\/detail.html\">the full article<\/a> for details on today&#8217;s failures in other counties across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a very low-turnout state Primary Election in New Mexico today. And yet, it brought more November tea leaves&#8230;. Computer problems affected ballot verification procedures in some counties across the state earlier Tuesday. The Secretary of State&#8217;s office started getting calls around noon from smaller counties saying their computer connection to Santa Fe wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6,5,146,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-new-mexico","category-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}