<div dir="auto">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.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, N</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 6:37 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> <a href="https://healthyelections.org/state-updates/new-mexico" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://healthyelections.org/state-updates/new-mexico</a><br>
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> I have no insight or investment. It's really just spam, I guess.<br>
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I am registered "Declines To Report" so am not invited to vote in either<br>
primary and am unclear if I am part of the remaining 58% of "eligible<br>
voters" who did not vote in the primary? I think NM has a modest<br>
contingent of "independent/DTR" voters. It is interesting to me to see<br>
the smallest counties having the highest turnouts (Catron and Mora)<br>
with the former being decidedly Conservative and I presume the latter as<br>
well. Does this reflect a strong turnout/show-of-support for Trump? I<br>
*do* think so. The highish turnout in Santa Fe Country might well<br>
reflect a similar commitment by the "Liberal Elite" to shut Trump down.<br>
<br>
I am not sure of Los Alamos' persuasion, I know there was always a<br>
strong "hawkish" posture for obvious reasons such as one's bread being<br>
buttered by strong support for the military-industrial... though many of<br>
the folks I worked with were *also* Liberal-Elites by other measures...<br>
well (over?) educated, a deep/long engagement in academia, often very<br>
broad/worldly experience and interests... <br>
<br>
Mary DID participate, ordered an absentee ballot but missed the mailing<br>
window AND the early voting window. When I took her to the "early<br>
voting" location I normally use, they were not open and no notice of<br>
where regular voting was to occur, so I tried another one that was once<br>
stood up, and was stymied as the last possibility I knew of was on San<br>
Ildefonso Pueblo property which is COVID closed to outsiders. We<br>
finally went to the main county location which was happily accepting<br>
mail-in-ballots delivered by hand, so all was good, but someone with<br>
less motivation or resources might have failed to vote through only the<br>
slightest of errors of their own. We looked it up afterwards and it<br>
was patently NOT obvious where she should/would have voted this primary.<br>
<br>
I'm going the mail-in route, she is going the early in-person this <br>
final, partly just to get some parallax on how well they work. NM is<br>
far from a difficult state to vote in, and also not one in play for any<br>
significant seat.<br>
<br>
I'm concentrating on engaging as meaningfully as I can, those I know<br>
well enough (in Swing States) that I *might* be able to persuade them to<br>
at least sit this one out, if not vote *against* the mistake they made 4<br>
years ago. <br>
<br>
I'm intrinsically distrusting of *all* politicians and the<br>
processes/institutions they represent or maintain, but this debacle of a<br>
Executive/Senate either needs to be shut down and repairs started or the<br>
Long Slide into some abyss (Apocalyptic Efflorescence or otherwise)<br>
seems inevitable. Maybe Dave and Marcus' fatalism is as good as it<br>
gets, and maybe come November I'll join that chorus, but for now, I'm<br>
not there yet. If Biden wins and the Senate flips, I'll call that "a<br>
good start" and try to figure out (surely differently than many) what<br>
the next arc of our sociopolitical path might be if we want a healthy<br>
society.<br>
<br>
mumble,<br>
<br>
- Steve<br>
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