[LWVNM Action] No change as a result of the recounts in two NM House Races

[Richard Mason]

As the article says. Shows that our voting system is secure and accurate.

Dick Mason


Recounts for NM House seats certified, no results change – *By Nash Jones,
KUNM*

New Mexico’s 2022 election is officially over after the state Canvassing
Board certified the results of two automatic recounts Wednesday.

After certifying the rest of the results Nov. 29, the board ordered
recounts in districts 32 and 68 because the margin of victory was so slim,
with less than 50 votes separating the candidates in both races.

The recounts
<https://electionresults.sos.state.nm.us/resultsSW.aspx?type=LGX&map=CTY&eid=2839>,
held last week at the county level, did not change the results of either
race.

Spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s Office Alex Curtas says it’s “a
testament to the accuracy and integrity of New Mexico’s vote counting
process” that no automatic recount — since they were established in 2008 —
has changed an election result.

The count in southwest New Mexico’s district 32 remained identical to the
original
<https://electionresults.sos.state.nm.us/resultsSW.aspx?type=LGX&map=CTY>,
with Republican Jennifer Jones maintaining a 46 vote lead over Democratic
incumbent Candie Sweetser. Sweetser is now officially one of only two
incumbents to lose her House seat
<https://www.kunm.org/local-news/2022-11-23/dem-control-of-nm-house-goes-unchanged-but-redistricting-process-may-not>
this
election. The other was Republican Jane Powdrell-Culbert.

Democratic Representative-elect Charlotte Little’s lead over Republican
candidate Robert Moss in the Albuquerque-area district 68 shrunk by one
vote in the recount.

The State Canvassing Board includes Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham,
Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, and state Supreme Court Chief
Justice Shannon Bacon who was absent from the recount certification
meeting, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
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