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

To: Snowshoe who wrote (73667)	11/14/2000 7:35:36 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 769670

500-vote oversight could put New Mexico back in Gore's corner By CHAKA FERGUSON Associated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE -- (AP) -- The presidential election in New Mexico has gotten even more schizophrenic: George W. Bush has a 126-vote lead, but a county clerk has discovered a 500-vote oversight that could swing the state back to Al Gore. The quirky saga that saw an election night lead of more than 6,000 votes for the Democratic vice president vanish into a slim margin for Bush still remains undeclared a week after the election. With 10 of 33 counties reporting new numbers Monday, Bush widened his margin from Friday, which was just a mere 17 votes. The new totals were 286,015 for Bush, and 285,889 for Gore. But the oversight in Dona Ana County, where election workers misread a 600-vote absentee total for a precinct -- mistaking the figure as 100 -- could put the state back in Gore's favor. The figure was not being counted in an unofficial county-by-county tally by The Associated Press. ``They wrote a six that looked like a one. That's where the 500 for Gore comes from,'' Dona Ana County Clerk Rita Torres said late Monday from Las Cruces. Torres said the county canvassing board had not certified the new total for Gore. Election workers also had not updated totals for Bush. ``It's a great development, unconfirmed as it is,'' said Diane Denish, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party. ``I'm not ready to have a celebration unless those numbers are confirmed.'' The vote changes in other New Mexico counties were attributed to several factors. Eddy County Clerk Jean Etcheverry said additional votes in her county cropped up because an election worker keyed in wrong numbers on Election Day when taking results by telephone from precincts. In Cibola County, Deputy Clerk Lee Ann Cramer said precinct numbers changed because voting machines had failed to read some ballots, ``and we had to hand-tally those.'' Meanwhile, state police planned to finish a court-ordered impoundment of ballots across the state Tuesday. State GOP Chairman John Dendahl said he wanted impoundments to ensure ballots were protected in case of a recount or challenge.