RNC On New Mexico "Voter Fraud": Never Mind

[babsbunny]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/rnc_on_new_mexico_voter_fraud.php

By Zachary Roth - October 20, 2008, 4:10PM

As if you needed any more evidence that the Republican effort to tout voter fraud is less about legitimate claims and more about a political agenda, consider this sequence of events:

Last week, as we noted at the time, the New Mexico GOP had publicly claimed that 28 people voted fraudulently in the Democratic primary, held in June, for a local race.

Then this morning, the RNC sent out a press release announcing a 3pm conference call with reporters "on the recent developments in New Mexico regarding ACORN."

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, they screamed about Duran Duran actually voting

Turns out he's in the local white pages.

I hope they like the taste of crow and I am not passing the salt.

[Overseas]

2. Oooh, 28 people? Check out what happened in 2004

In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes{8}, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots {9}. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment — roughly one for every 100 cast{10}.

Number in brackets {#} are footnotes in the article
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

Footnotes:
8 Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President.

9 Ellen Theisen and Warren Stewart, Summary Report on New Mexico State Election Data, January 4, 2005, pg. 2

James W. Bronsan, ''In 2004, New Mexico Worst at Counting Votes,'' Scripps Howard News Service, December 22, 2004.

10 ''A Summary of the 2004 Election Day Survey; How We Voted: People, Ballots & Polling Places; A Report to the American People by the United States Election Assistance Commission'', September 2005, pg. 10.