Friday, February 8, 2008

From the front lines in New Mexico

From blog run by fellow who was "the caucus site coordinator for Zone 43 or Ward 31B in the Albuquerque far NE Heights, near the Tram." Commentary on how Super Tuesday went at one caucus site.

New Mexico FBIHOP:
I had 14 caucus site volunteers working in two shifts, which I thought would be too many. Boy was I wrong! We had a trickle of voters arriving all morning, not knowing that voting started at noon. We had posted bright neon-orange signs ("Vote Here noon-7") on both Tramway and Paseo . Observers arrived from both the Clinton and Obama campaigns. I opened the polls at noon and the crush began- we immediately had 4 and then 5 sign in lines inside the church's multipurpose room so people did not have to wait outside in the cold. Like Don, we had to keep altering the alphabetical breakout of the lines to keep up with the change in voter mix. We must have changed the signs 6 times during the day, trading roster sheets up and down the line of registrars. For some reason people in A-F do not vote in the morning!
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[Note: I haven't seen any guesses regarding when NM Dems think they might have all the votes recounted!... with any luck, before NM's regular primary on June 3rd...]

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