The extremely-close race between Clinton and Obama in New Mexico has everyone excited. The big snowstorm in northern NM bollixed up the voting there, and with the margin so close, every irregularity is looming like a mountain.
Heath Haussamen's blog is a good vantage place... Joe Monahan is a good place too.
Hmmm.... Poorly-organized volunteers are blamed for long lines in Bernalillo.
Wow, this is some of my old stomping ground....
Polling places such as the Our Lady of Sorrows gymnasium in Bernalillo — one of the four precincts whose vote totals are still not known — ran out of ballots around 4:45 p.m. The same happened at LBJ Middle School in Taylor Ranch.
At Rio Rancho High School, where all 37 of Rio Rancho's polling places were consolidated, thousands of people were waiting to vote around 5 p.m., Capt. Jimmy DeFillippo of the Rio Rancho Fire Department said at the time.
"They're just trying to maintain order," DeFillippo said. "They're shuffling people from the gymnasium into each room to get voted."
Turnout was so high that Rio Rancho police were called out for traffic control, said Laura Sanchez, executive director of the state Democratic Party. She also said party workers were dispatched there to help process voters.
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