Sec. of State to hold hearing [Thursday] on stripping mail-in ballot verification protections, opening door to fraud (NM - strips ALL protection, adds new ways to cheat, entire article posted)

The Piñon Post ^ | July 19, 2021 | John Block

[CedarDave]

On Thursday, the Secretary of State’s Office will hold a hearing at the Roundhouse on proposed election rule changes to 1.10.15 NMAC regarding voting administration and mail-in ballot verification processes and 1.10.19 NMAC, a “new Secured Containers Rule.”

These changes would directly impact the security of elections in New Mexico, especially with the proposed rule, written to take effect on August 24, 2021, which would flatly strip out section 1.10.15.8, which gives requirements for ballot verification with the last four digits of a social security number, signature matching, and notifications sent to voters of their ballots being rejected, giving the voter the opportunity to “cure” their ballot at their local city clerk’s office.

Some of the portions proposed to be stricken by Secretary Maggie Toulouse Oliver include:

A. Upon receipt of a mailed ballot, the county clerk shall remove the privacy flap to verify that the voter signed the official mailing envelope and to confirm that the last four digits of the social security number provided by the voter matches the information on the voter’s certificate of registration.

B. If either the voter’s signature is missing or the last four digits of the voter’s social security number are not provided or do not match, the county clerk shall reject the mailed ballot and make the appropriate notation in the absentee ballot register and shall transfer the ballot to the special deputy for mailed ballots for delivery to the absent voter election board. Mailed ballots that are rejected must be secured and kept separate from the accepted mailed ballots.

C. If the mailed ballot is rejected, the county clerk shall within one working day send the voter a notice of rejection, in the voter’s preferred language, along with information regarding how the voter may cure the reason for the rejection.

In the 1.10.19 NMAC rule change, Toulouse Oliver proposes the institution of “ballot drop box[es],” which would further weaken New Mexico election regulations by forcing New Mexico’s county clerks, unless granted a waiver, to install “a secured container to return official mailing envelopes” based on “a voting population-based formula determined by the secretary of state.”

Although the rule claims to be “secure” with the addition of “video recordings” at the drop-off locations, it would be unclear who is dropping off what ballot, opening up the process to voter fraud through ballot harvesting (taking other peoples’ ballots to the drop-off location for them, which could be altered or otherwise tampered with). Poll challengers tell the Piñon Post that at least in Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties during the 2020 election, the rule adding video recordings was in place, however, no precincts that they witnessed adhered to the video surveillance mandate.

With the Secretary of State’s proposed striking of 1.10.15.8 NMCA ensuring verification of ballots for signatures and matching social security numbers, the addition of the ballot drop boxes would give free rein for bad actors to defraud New Mexico elections through ballot harvesting and the submission of illegal mail-in ballots.

New Mexicans are encouraged to attend the meeting and speak up against the rule change, which would make New Mexico’s elections even more susceptible to fraud with the lack of ballot verification and the addition of ballot drop boxes, leaving New Mexicans’ votes vulnerable.

Ballot harvesting is already happening in New Mexico, with even New Mexico’s newest member of the state House of Representatives, Pamelya Herndon, admitting to harvesting ballots from senior citizens.

Meeting details are below:

A public hearing will be held on Thursday July 22, from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm, at the State Capitol Building located at 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501 in Room 322. Every effort will be made to ensure that this hearing will be live streamed on the Office’s website. The public hearing allows members of the public an opportunity to submit data, testimony, and arguments in person on the proposed rule changes detailed below. All comments will be recorded by a court reporter.

[CedarDave]

I'm sending this to all those on the NM Ping list. Other New Mexico residents not on my list hopefully will see this.

The link to the proposed rule making at the NM SOS office is shown below:

Alternative Election Day Voting Administration Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Deletions to existing law are shown in the markup which is a PDF. Citizen comments are also shown as PDFs. Email addresses of those providing email comments are public record and NOT redacted.

[CatOwner]

The leftists are creating so many roadblocks that the right won’t be able to deal with them all by 2022.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Think of the frog. It’s boiled.

[Rurudyne]

Democrats love them some campaign fraud.

[CedarDave]

Details for Obtaining a Copy of Rule and Submitting Oral or Written Comments: Copies of the proposed rule are available on the Office’s website at www.sos.state.nm.us or can be obtained from the Bureau of Elections by calling (505) 827-3600 or emailing kari.fresquez@state.nm.us. The proposed rule is also available on the New Mexico Sunshine Portal. Interested individuals may provide comments at the public hearing.

Before the public hearing, written comments may be sent to Kari Fresquez, Director of Legislative and Executive Affairs, via email at kari.fresquez@state.nm.us, fax (505) 827-8403, or by regular mail at Attn: Kari Fresquez – proposed rule, The Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State, 325 Don Gaspar, Suite 300, Santa Fe, NM 87501. The deadline to receive written comment is 9:00 am on July 22, 2021. All written public comments will be posted on the website throughout the written comment period at: www.sos.state.nm.us.

[CedarDave]

Please note that email addresses are not redacted so you might want to use a secondary address instead of your primary one.

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[CedarDave]

The letters already written in opposition can be viewed as a PDF and give ideas on what to put in the email and how to phrase the objection.

[hsmomx3]

I agree.

It’s time to fight fire with fire and take off the Mr. Nice Guy masks.

[CedarDave]

[NM] Democrats just deny the existence of fraud, and *poof* it’s gone (in their minds)

[one guy in new jersey]

“You arrogant ass...you’ve killed us!!”

[one guy in new jersey]

“You arrogant ass...you’ve killed us!!”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why bother with elections at all?

Just declare the Democrats the winners.

It would save a lot of time and money.

[Magnum44]

I am not from NM but is this rule changing not like what the SoS and Courts of other states did (using COVID as an excuse) to illegally end run around the legislatures in the 2020 election? If so cant it be blocked?

[Soul of the South]

“Why bother with elections at all?”

Even for the most totalitarian regimes, elections accomplish two things even when totally corrupt:
1) Provide a veneer of legitimacy.
2) Allow the tyrants in charge to identify their opponents and potential opponents.

Democrats are creating one party state dictatorships due to their rewriting and manipulation of the voting laws — California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts. As they capture the legislature in red states they are doing the same - Virginia a recent example. They are poised to do the same in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Arizona the first time they win the governorship and both houses of the legislature.

The people keep voting for Democrats in these states no matter what happens. Look at Portland and Seattle. Democrats won again despite the corruption, crime, and rioting in the streets. Look at San Francisco, virtually unlivable for the middle class. Yet the people keep reelected people espousing the policies that have destroyed their cities and states.

A republic cannot survive a complacent, uneducated, and unthinking population. Hence the voters of today are the product of 70 years of dumbing down the education system.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Let me guess rather quickly:

“Secretary Maggie Toulouse Oliver” is a socially-corrupt communist democrat stooge elected with Soros money on a social-communist democrat party ballot.

[Bob434]

so now in those states, whoever wins will be determined by which party cheats the most

[CedarDave]

“Secretary Maggie Toulouse Oliver” is a socially-corrupt communist democrat stooge elected with Soros money on a social-communist democrat party ballot.

Exactly!

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Just declare the Democrats deep-state the winners."
McConnell is an example of a republican that didn't actually win in 2020.

[Revel]

Conquering the ballot box one state at a time. We are pretty much done with real elections in this country.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks RACPE.