The Problems with New Mexico's Voter Rolls and Earth to attack Moon

The problem with voter rolls in New Mexico

Yesterday is not the first time we have heard about problems with voter rolls here in New Mexico. A few years ago the Secretary of State’s office sent out voter cards. Not everyone received them and the people who did receive them complained that the information printed on them was incorrect. The local news made hay about the fact that there were still names on the rolls for deceased individuals. Now the local news is making more about a no bid contract with the company that designed the computer system that the county clerk’s office is using to tract voters. If there is a voter in New Mexico that does not know that our voter rolls have problems than I want to know what cave he or she has been living in for the last few years.

The Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse-Oliver is working to do an audit of the voting process in our county this election year. The information gained by the audit could be very valuable in finding and fixing the problems that have plagued our voting system over the years. If this audit turns up problems that can be fixed then maybe the results can also be used in other counties in the state.

The information taking from site workers during the last Democratic Caucus should also be used to direct county clerks and the Secretary of State’s office in the right direction to find the problems and fix them before the June and November elections this year. Somehow I have a hard time thinking that the Secretary of State, who is a member of our party, would intentionally do anything to cause problems with an election run by the Democratic Party. With a system that has hundred of thousands of voter names as well as contact information and is changing on a daily bases some error is unavoidable but it should never reach the levels that it did in the February 5 election. An error rate of near 11% is just too high for a state of our size.

I spoke with a friend the other day and the problem he encountered was one that the county clerk’s office here in Bernalillo County has already found a fix for with their elections. Our party had people give their names only when looking up caucus sites but if like my friend you have a common name that could and in his case did send him to the wrong caucus site. The system that the county clerk has also requires your address so that you are directed to the voting site nearest to where you live. Simply fix to a difficult problem.

The type of violent action that all Americans can get behind.

Earth to attack the moon, not really our scientists are planning on crashing two spacecrafts into the polar cap of the moon so they can try and detect hidden water.

“The Earth-on-moon violence may raise eyebrows, but NASA's history shows that such missions can yield extremely useful scientific observations.”

This is the one type of attack that I can approve of whole heartily because it will yield useful scientific data without taking any human life. It is also a very economical way of getting the needed data something that would be good for NASA’s ever tighten budget.