[FRIAM] The 2020 NM Primary

[Frank Wimberly]

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.

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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 <sasmyth at swcp.com> 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
>
>
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