http://disqus.com/people/8f63980455ac2ffc371514d529419c39/enSun, 31 Aug 2008 04:38:07 -0000http://nmindependent.disqus.com/the_sarah_palin_i_knew/#comment-2352609Why would Obama have wanted an unqualified ex-beauty queen bible-thumpin' rapture reich Christo-Nazi?<br><br>Excellent article!placitasroySat, 30 Aug 2008 12:29:52 -0000http://nmindependent.disqus.com/the_sarah_palin_i_knew_19/#comment-2502430Why would Obama have wanted an unqualified ex-beauty queen bible-thumpin' rapture reich Christo-Nazi?<br><br>Excellent article!placitasroySat, 30 Aug 2008 12:29:52 -0000http://nmindependent.disqus.com/guv8217s_office_answers_some_questions_but_not_all_on_noel8217s_hiring/#comment-2352591Jim Noel was the election observer who alerted officials to the 12,000-vote discrepancy in vote totals for the U.S. Representative race in 11/02. Although about 48,000 people had voted early on 212 Sequoia-supplied touch-screen computers at six sites in the county, the initial figures indicated that no race, not even for governor, showed a total of more than about 36,000 votes.<br><br>Sequoia claimed its machines had not been properly programmed for the quantity of votes cast but that it re-ran the totals and no votes were lost. The Board finally certified but note before Commissioner Tom Rutherford accused Sequoia of a “cover-up,” and said it had never intended to tell NM officials about the problem. But serious questions still remain as to the accuracy of that 11/02 vote. Sequoia vote-counting machines are no longer used in NMplacitasroySun, 31 Aug 2008 04:38:07 -0000http://nmindependent.disqus.com/guv8217s_office_answers_some_questions_but_not_all_on_noel8217s_hiring_04/#comment-2502415Jim Noel was the election observer who alerted officials to the 12,000-vote discrepancy in vote totals for the U.S. Representative race in 11/02. Although about 48,000 people had voted early on 212 Sequoia-supplied touch-screen computers at six sites in the county, the initial figures indicated that no race, not even for governor, showed a total of more than about 36,000 votes.<br><br>Sequoia claimed its machines had not been properly programmed for the quantity of votes cast but that it re-ran the totals and no votes were lost. The Board finally certified but note before Commissioner Tom Rutherford accused Sequoia of a “cover-up,” and said it had never intended to tell NM officials about the problem. But serious questions still remain as to the accuracy of that 11/02 vote. Sequoia vote-counting machines are no longer used in NMplacitasroySun, 31 Aug 2008 04:38:07 -0000