How unofficial results become official
Happy Thursday, dear friends,
On the night of primary elections, most of the Bulletin team as well as a television news crew found themselves reporting from a watch party at The Game Bar and Grill near New Mexico State University’s Las Cruces campus. There were large TV monitors displaying the results reported from the Secretary of State’s office; several candidates were hanging around; there were tables and chairs; so we spent some time there.
The results we were reporting, and the results reported in your Bulletin (hitting the stands and subscribers’ doorsteps today), are unofficial results. How do unofficial results become official? As the Secretary’s office states on its website, “It would be impossible for New Mexico to count one hundred percent of the votes and meet its stringent auditing obligations in a single day.”
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A post-election audit, or canvass, is part of the process, beginning with the local county clerk’s office and proceeding to state-level inspectors, then an independent auditor, with the final results submitted to the state canvassing board. The board consists of the governor, secretary of state and the state Supreme Court’s chief justice. Once they certify the results, we have an official vote count. It may differ slightly but tends to be close to the unofficial results we learn soon after polls close.
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