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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bigsablepoint who wrote (69441)	11/10/2000 8:05:31 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Time for another recount? Dem chief in New Mexico bending the rules just a tad....hmmmmmmmm? New Mexico Tilting To Bush By John Turner Gilliland CNS Correspondent November 10, 2000 Albuquerque, N.M. (CNSNews.com) - Florida isn't the only state in play for Electoral College votes as the nation enters day four of Presidential Election 2000. Voting irregularities in New Mexico have thrown another 68,000 miscounted ballots into the mix, trimming Vice President Al Gore's lead over Governor George W. Bush to a razor thin 106 votes with 552 ballots left to count. A source close to the Secretary of State's office, which is responsible for making the election official, says the certified vote may actually put Bush ahead of Gore by 24 votes. Two-hundred-fifty-two ballots are also missing from the Voter Warehouse in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, indicating that the outcome of the New Mexico presidential vote is far from decided. This latest twist has both Republicans and Democrats in New Mexico fuming. GOP party chair John Dendahl is calling for a legal investigation into the possible impeachment of Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron. Dendahl claims Vigil-Giron, a Democrat, made calls to voters asking them to get out and vote Democratic, and says that represents a conflict of interest. Democratic party chair Diane Denish worries that delays and confusion in the voting process are unfair to her candidates and to all New Mexicans. The 252 missing ballots are not only a big issue in a close presidential race, they are also pivotal in two major county races that could shift the balance of power in state politics from Democratic to Republican. The sitting Speaker of the House, Raymond Sanchez, is facing defeat by his Republican challenger John Sanchez by only eight votes. Incumbent state Senator Ramsey Gorham hangs on to her seat by fewer than 100 votes in a tough fight with Democrat Janice Paster. As the recount in Florida continues under challenges from Democrats looking to reverse George W. Bush's slim lead there, New Mexico's five electoral votes loom larger by the hour. Should Gore manage to win Florida through the 3,000 yet to be counted absentee overseas votes, and should Republican challenges in Wisconsin and Iowa, and a possible Bush victory in Oregon give those states to the GOP, the electoral vote could, mathematically, be a tie for Bush and Gore. And the tie-breaker would be New Mexico.