By Christian Newswire
Thursday, October 26, 2006
aLBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- The FBI is investigating a case of vote manipulation perpetrated in the 2004 elections in New Mexico's largest county, Bernalillo County, according to witnesses who state that "hundreds" of votes were falsified in the 2004 election.
The witnesses include Bernalillo County absentee Board Presiding Judges Jan Saenz and Jim Pierce, and Bernalillo County election worker David Quintana. Saenz and Quintana in November of 2004 reported to US attorney David Iglesias that vote counts in the Bernalillo County election were falsified by employees of Ink Impressions, a firm contracted by the Secretary of State of New Mexico to tally absentee voting. Details of the incident reported to the US attorney and turned over the FBI were described as "deliberate manipulation of the vote results" in the vote counting process when data entry was performed by employees of Ink Impressions on election night of 2004. The Bernalillo County Canvassing Board confirmed the data entry manipulation the day following the election when hand-tallied ballots were canvassed.
The 2004 Bernalillo County absentee Canvassing Board found evidence of deliberate manipulation in data entry tallies in favor of Democrat candidates by hundreds, and possibly thousands of votes following the night of the 2004 election, in all races including the Presidential race. The details of the elections returns manipulation were captured on the County Clerk website, confirming the recording of overstated vote tallies before the canvassing board convened. Saenz, Quintana and the other members of the canvassing board found evidence of manipulation of data entry.
also found were evidence of twenty-seven incidents of double voting in absentee ballots. Double voting was discovered when the absentee board accepted hand-written paper ballots from the County Clerk's office. When these hard-copy ballots were checked against voting computer records for the regular vote, it was discovered that these voters had also voted at the polls--the same voters had voted twice
The ongoing investigation, which was originally reported in November of 2004, is being pursued by the FBI at the request of US attorney David Iglesias, whose office has jurisdiction concerning falsification of federal election returns. Bernalillo County Commissioner Michael Brasher has expressed concern, and is seeking further information regarding this incident from the US attorney.
Details of the analysis, official statement, correspondence and copies of the website printouts are available upon request at writerabq-nm@yahoo.com.
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