New Mexico to recount ALL Democratic ballots

[Adelante]

It will be awhile before the last of the Super Tuesday states declares a winner. New Mexico Democratic Party officials announced Thursday that they will recount every ballot. Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama in the state by about 1,000 votes.

Originally, New Mexico's Democratic Party had planned to count 17,000 provisional ballots, largely ballots cast by voters whose eligibility was in question or who came to the wrong polling place.

But the Democrat-only contest was plagued by so many problems that the state party, along with the Clinton and Obama campaigns, agreed that only checking all ballots cast would insure an accurate result.

New Mexico apportions its delegates, so Obama and Clinton will each end up with a share of the 26 delegates at stake. And with the national race so close, each delegate counts.

There is no prediction of when the recount will be completed.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18785663

[MNDemNY]

1. Holy hell, batman, the campaigns agreed!

[onehandle]

2. How un-Bush like of them.

Isn't it nice to be a Democrat and be allowed to have a democracy.

Unlike Bush.

[ursi]

3. who has to pay for this? the State or the campaigns? Should be the State

[Orangepeel]

5. with a difference that small, it is probably the state

I don't know about NM in particular, but most states have automatic recount provisions if the difference between candidates is very small.

[Adelante]

6. It's not about the small margin in this case

It's because it's all a godawful mess. Boxes of ballots disappeared for two days - they were in people's houses, not gone forever, but the proper authorities hadn't received them. A mess.

[sandnsea]

4. Too bad they didn't do this in 2004

I don't trust anything that comes out of NM at this point.