from earlier today...
NM Democrats rechecking canvassed results
By HEATHER CLARK / Associated Press
Article Launched: 02/14/2008 06:05:34 AM MST
ALBUQUERQUE - State Democratic Party officials said they were rechecking canvassed results from the Feb. 5 presidential caucus on Wednesday, a day after they had released them on the party's Web site.
The party had announced what they termed the "final totals" of their count of absentee and regular ballots Tuesday and posted a news release and link to them on their Web site, but removed those items later that evening.
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The Web site's link had been visible for about five hours Tuesday evening with what the party had said were the canvassed results before it was removed later that night. The total votes statewide did not match the party's county-by-county totals.http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_8256142.........from 2004
Impossible Phantom Votes in New Mexico
by Warren Stewart
December 30, 2004
"That can't be what they really call them!" I exclaimed in amusement. But Lowell Finley, legal counsel for the Green/Libertarian recount effort in New Mexico, assured me that 'phantom vote' was indeed the common legal term for the puzzling phenomenon I had uncovered in looking at the state's canvass report.
A phantom vote occurs when the number of votes recorded exceeds the number of ballots cast. Mathematically, phantom votes are merely the inverse of undervotes. Undervotes, which show up when there are less votes than ballots cast, can be accounted for more or less persuasively in one way or another but I have yet to come up with any acceptable explanation for phantoms. Much less, 2,087 of them statewide in New Mexico, just about one third of the margin of victory that determined the selection of that state's presidential electors.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1055