{"id":2421,"date":"2008-02-20T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/feel-better-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:54:32","slug":"feel-better-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/feel-better-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Better, New Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New York City Still Tallying Votes | The Trail\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/02\/20\/new_york_city_still_tallying_v.html\">New York City Still Tallying Votes | The Trail | washingtonpost.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>By Robin Shulman <\/em><br \/>NEW YORK &#8212; <strong>It&#8217;s been 15 days since Super Tuesday, but New York City is still waiting to find out if Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton won the most-contested areas.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>The Board of Elections has acknowledged that errors in reporting the election day tallies made it appear that Obama had received not a single vote in 55 election districts, when in reality his votes had simply not been counted, said Valerie Vazquez-Rivera, a spokeswoman for the board. In another 27 districts, Obama actually received no votes, she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Vazquez-Rivera attributed the discrepancies to human error as exhausted inspectors rushed to copy columns of numbers to be delivered to the police and then to the press. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have been working 16 and 17 hour days,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There were instances where they just left the Obama field blank.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But Tuesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, described the results as &#8220;fraud.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If you want to call it significant undercounting, I guess that&#8217;s a euphemism for fraud,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>No election districts reported that Clinton received no votes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/02\/20\/new_york_city_still_tallying_v.html\">New York City Still Tallying Votes | The Trail | washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Still Tallying Votes | The Trail | washingtonpost.com&nbsp; By Robin Shulman NEW YORK &#8212; It&#8217;s been 15 days since Super Tuesday, but New York City is still waiting to find out if Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton won the most-contested areas. The Board of Elections has acknowledged that errors in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/feel-better-new-mexico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feel Better, New Mexico?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}