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Secretary of State: Kerry now leads N.M.
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Last Update: 11/04/2004 5:12:57 PM
By: Todd Dukart
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The already close presidential race in New Mexico just got much closer, with unofficial results putting Democrat John Kerry ahead of President George W. Bush by 1,476 votes.
The New Mexico Secretary of State’s website says Kerry is now leading the president 344,846 votes to 343,370. That’s just two tenths of a percentage point.
However, results reported by The Associated Press show Bush in the lead by just over 8,000 votes. The AP’s results are showing a higher total number of votes than the Secretary of State’s.
NBC and Eyewitness News 4 have not yet declared a winner in New Mexico’s election.
It’s not clear how many more ballots need to be counted, but it appears the number of ballots is in the thousands.
Stay tuned to Eyewitness News 4 and KOBTV.com for the latest information on this developing story.
http://www.kob.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=14749&cat=HOME.
Yep. The SOS site shows a lower number total number of total voters (704,491) vs. the Journals total of 732,714 for just Bush+Kerry. One of two things is happening: 1) The SOS office (in Santa Fe) is slower putting in results and has entered a bunch of Northern NM numbers, 2) King Bill has ordered the good Kerry numbers entered first so this evening's news can highlight the fact that Kerry has pulled ahead, or 3) King BIll is manufacturing numbers somehow.
From reading notes on the NM FR board and from private FReep mail, some of our FReepers are keeping an eye on the county clerks offices and the state Pubbies are probably keeping individual totals so that they can check the SOS key entry figures. That way they can go back later to the SOS and politely say "you made a clerical error in your data entry" (when they really want to say "your AFL-CIO union employee clerk entered the wrong numbers on purpose"). That's what I'm hoping, at least.
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11/04/2004 4:40:03 PM PST by
CedarDave
(Served with pride alongside the Swifties, USCG patrol boat, Coastal Division 13, Viet Nam, 1967-68.)
How come CNN has Bush leading 370,706 to 362,340 for a total vote cast between the two of 733,046 and the NM site shows a total of 688,216 between the two candidates?
