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Opening Statement
The New Mexico Election Administration Report on the 2006 November General Election is the product of three independent research projects focused on New Mexico’s election administration efforts in the 2006 election. New Mexico has recently implemented a number of significant election reforms intended to create fair, accurate and voter-verifiable election administration systems. New Mexico, for example, is the first state that moved from a predominantly electronic voting system to one that mandated optical scan paper ballots statewide, with the intent of providing a paper trail so that elections could be audited for accuracy and to provide an environment that would promote greater voter confidence. The statewide implementation of this program and the use of ES&S M-100 and M-650 occurred in the fall 2006 general election. Prior to that there were at least six different voting technologies used throughout the state. Each of the three research studies summarized here examine a different aspect of the election process, each providing a very important look at the election administration question and an overall look at the 2006 election experience and environment in New Mexico.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following individuals for their help and assistance with this project including: former Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera and Election Director Jaime Diaz, Doña Ana County Clerk Rita Torres and Election Director Lynn Ellins, and Santa Fe County Clerk Valerie Espinoza and Election Director Denise Lamb, Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Deputy County Clerk Robert Adams, Colorado State University political science Professor Kyle Saunders, political science staff assistant Joann Buehler, political science graduate student Luciana Zilberman, political science undergraduate student Alex Adams, bulk mail supervisor Alisha Foster, Ray Martinez III, Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron who provided us with the voter registration file, political science chair Professor Mark Peceny, R. Bruce Cary Los Alamos National Labs, and all of the registered voters and poll workers who responded to our request for participation.
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