I thought the absentee ballots were to be mailed to voters beginning on October 6. My daughter just got a form to request one within the last few days.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, N On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 6:37 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > https://healthyelections.org/state-updates/new-mexico > > > > I have no insight or investment. It's really just spam, I guess. > > I am registered "Declines To Report" so am not invited to vote in either > primary and am unclear if I am part of the remaining 58% of "eligible > voters" who did not vote in the primary? I think NM has a modest > contingent of "independent/DTR" voters. It is interesting to me to see > the smallest counties having the highest turnouts (Catron and Mora) > with the former being decidedly Conservative and I presume the latter as > well. Does this reflect a strong turnout/show-of-support for Trump? I > *do* think so. The highish turnout in Santa Fe Country might well > reflect a similar commitment by the "Liberal Elite" to shut Trump down. > > I am not sure of Los Alamos' persuasion, I know there was always a > strong "hawkish" posture for obvious reasons such as one's bread being > buttered by strong support for the military-industrial... though many of > the folks I worked with were *also* Liberal-Elites by other measures... > well (over?) educated, a deep/long engagement in academia, often very > broad/worldly experience and interests... > > Mary DID participate, ordered an absentee ballot but missed the mailing > window AND the early voting window. When I took her to the "early > voting" location I normally use, they were not open and no notice of > where regular voting was to occur, so I tried another one that was once > stood up, and was stymied as the last possibility I knew of was on San > Ildefonso Pueblo property which is COVID closed to outsiders. We > finally went to the main county location which was happily accepting > mail-in-ballots delivered by hand, so all was good, but someone with > less motivation or resources might have failed to vote through only the > slightest of errors of their own. We looked it up afterwards and it > was patently NOT obvious where she should/would have voted this primary. > > I'm going the mail-in route, she is going the early in-person this > final, partly just to get some parallax on how well they work. NM is > far from a difficult state to vote in, and also not one in play for any > significant seat. > > I'm concentrating on engaging as meaningfully as I can, those I know > well enough (in Swing States) that I *might* be able to persuade them to > at least sit this one out, if not vote *against* the mistake they made 4 > years ago. > > I'm intrinsically distrusting of *all* politicians and the > processes/institutions they represent or maintain, but this debacle of a > Executive/Senate either needs to be shut down and repairs started or the > Long Slide into some abyss (Apocalyptic Efflorescence or otherwise) > seems inevitable. Maybe Dave and Marcus' fatalism is as good as it > gets, and maybe come November I'll join that chorus, but for now, I'm > not there yet. If Biden wins and the Senate flips, I'll call that "a > good start" and try to figure out (surely differently than many) what > the next arc of our sociopolitical path might be if we want a healthy > society. > > mumble, > > - Steve > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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