Posted on 11/01/2008 11:49:13 AM PDT by flyfree
As part of our ongoing investigation into issues surrounding voter fraud, we have discovered a VERY disconcerting situation. And this time, it's not in Ohio...
It looks like out-of-state volunteers and staffers are registering and casting ballots in the battleground state of New Mexico, too.
One example is Shayne Adamski. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, is actively involved in politics and was a California delegate at the Democratic National Convention just 2 short months ago. Adamski is also a paid employee on the Obama campaign, and he traveled to New Mexico to help get out the vote in this swing state. All of this is quite admirable.
However, according to the Bernalillo County Clerk, Adamski registered to vote as a resident of Albuquerque on October 5. That's just 38 days after he was representing the state of California as a delegate on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. He also requested an absentee ballot. (We do not yet know if he cast a ballot, we are waiting to hear from the County Clerk.)
(Excerpt) Read more at palestra.net ...
I suggest more of you fire something out.
Are you going to get this out to New Mexico voters before Tuesday night at 10:00?
http://www.palestra.net/blogs/read/18025
As part of our ongoing investigation into issues surrounding voter fraud, we have discovered a VERY disconcerting situation. And this time, it's not in Ohio...
It looks like out-of-state volunteers and staffers are registering and casting ballots in the battleground state of New Mexico, too.
One example is Shayne Adamski. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, is actively involved in politics and was a California delegate at the Democratic National Convention just 2 short months ago. Adamski is also a paid employee on the Obama campaign, and he traveled to New Mexico to help get out the vote in this swing state. All of this is quite admirable.
However, according to the Bernalillo County Clerk, Adamski registered to vote as a resident of Albuquerque on October 5. That's just 38 days after he was representing the state of California as a delegate on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. He also requested an absentee ballot. (We do not yet know if he cast a ballot, we are waiting to hear from the County Clerk.)
Tiffany Wilson and I traveled to New Mexico with photojournalist Gary Orr to check things out.
We were able to speak with Carlos Sanchez, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign, but he declined to comment on Adamski's specific situation. Unfortunately, we were unable to speak with Adamski himself due to campaign policy.
Since we can't talk to Adamski directly or get information about him from the campaign, we don't know whether or not he moved to Albuquerque and/or intends to reside here, but we were curious: are out-of-state campaign workers eligible to claim residency in New Mexico and cast a ballot?
We realize that New Mexico does not abide by the Ohio Revised Code, something we have become very familiar with in the past few weeks. In Ohio, you must be a resident of the state 30 days prior to the election AND have the intention of residing there permanently. Was this the case in New Mexico?
We asked the Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver this very question. Contrary to what we have discovered in Ohio, she said that out-of-state volunteers WERE in fact able to register and to vote in New Mexico.
When we asked how this was allowed, she replied: "It's not that it's allowed so much as that it's not enforced. There is really no enforcement mechanism in place to evaluate whether someone's submitting a registration based on a temporary address."
Concerning? Yes.
But that's not the end of the story:
Tiffany and I made our way from Albuquerque to Santa Fe and paid a visit to the New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera, a Democrat, to pose the same question. How can it be possible for out-of-staters to just come into New Mexico and cast a vote?
The Secretary of State had a VERY different response. According to Herrera, voters MUST intend to make New Mexico their home. Much like Ohio, they can NOT come into the state for temporary purposes and claim residency in order to cast a ballot.
When we shared what we had uncovered and gave her names of some out-of-state volunteers we had come across, she seemed very concerned.
New Mexico has already begun opening and counting absentee ballots. If you check out Adamski's Facebook profile picture above, it looks like his ballot may have already been filled out and perhaps even counted.
Adamski is not the only out-of-state voter we have encountered. In addition to others from California, we've done some preliminary research that indicates that Texans have been coming into New Mexico by the bus load... have they been voting here too?
Stay tuned to Palestra.net for updates as this breaking story unfolds.
Yeah, me too.
This is just nuts. The last two elections in New Mexico resulted in a 50-49 Bush win and a 48-48 tie (Gore won by 360 votes or so, even closer than Florida).
I do think that NM is the red state that is most likely to flip to blue. But it will be much closer than 10 points.
McCain's problem is that this state is 32% Hispanic. In 1996, they voted for Kerry 56-44. Obama is likely to do better than that. For argument's sake, let's assume that the Hispanic vote will be 65-35. That would be a net gain of 5.76% statewide (statewide roughly 52-48 or thereabouts, easily enough to win the state even if the rest of the state votes like it did in 2004.
If, instead, the Hispanics break at 60-40 -- a much smaller improvement for Obama -- the net gain for Obama will be 2.56% -- still good enough to win, but by a razor thin margin.
People in NM believe in the power of government, and that is our problem.
The north, especially Santa Fe is way blue.
I want some punishment-based action here, AND I demand assurances from my Government (with evidence) that these attempts will not affect this election.
CNN; 11/11/00
What was I thinking about?
Pay no attention to my scurrilous propaganda.
>This sort of abuse of the most fundamental right to vote should carry a heavy penalty.
I agree, not only are they committing felonies, but they are interfering with our non-violent procedures to change the government. (Though with the amount of corruption, maybe it’s about time to exercise our more violent options...)
>Something short of death, but not by much.
Really? I would love to see ACORN not only slammed with a RICO suit, but charged and convicted with treason. (If another country were to tamper with our elections like this, wouldn’t it be an act of war?) After the treason convictions, a nice speedy public execution will do fine
{IE A death penalty would be a DON’T SCREW WITH OUT ELECTIONS, anybody! shouted to everybody, foreign and domestic.}
>Perhaps 10 years in prison minimum. Every fraudulent vote steals the vote of a real citizen.
Well, I suppose so. But I really would like to see some results from this, instead of either nothing happening, or they just get out of jail and do it again.
*our, not out.
>NM has had nothing but rodent hack Attorneys-General for years (the last Republican was Hal Stratton from 1987-91). They ALWAYS look the other way at rodent corruption. Patsy Madrid was a fine example of that.
I’m tempted to join the AG’s office just to clean shit up. (I’m a big fan of “competence should trump politics” and justice/non-corruption.)
One vote here, one vote there ......
Nothing to see folks, just moveon.org. Nothing to see. /sarchasm - the gaping canyon between liberals and morals.
The New Mexico fraud is serious because it takes less fraud to tip the balance in a low population state.
The New Mexico fraud is serious because it takes less fraud to tip the balance in a low population state.
The better alternative is to go to a good law library where statute books for all 50 states should be available.
Maybe it has to do with Fox sponsorship? The palestra page has a large Fox ad on the right.
Well, good luck.
Between Bill Richardson and Mary Herrera (et al), being so absolutely blatant about not just allowing voter fraud, but actually facilitating it, and the whole NM media’s love affair with King Bill, I don’t think that anyone ‘mainstream’ will mention it, much less actually investigate it.
And with Bush refusing to allow the DOJ to look into this voter fraud, the only hope we really have is at a grass roots level make people aware of it, getting out the vote on Tuesday, (and maybe the tar and feathers).
Hell, do it. The whole political establishment of the state needs a gigantic enema.
Absolutely I agree. And they should be stripped of their right to vote forever.
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