On August 12, the New Mexico Libertarian Party filed this reply brief in Curtis v Oliver, 1:20cv-748. This is the case over whether the party’s candidate for one of the statewide state offices received enough write-ins in the Libertarian primary to be considered nominated. Some counties clearly did not tally the write-ins. The candidate only needs 26 more write-ins to be considered qualified for the November ballot.
no count = 14-2 violation ???
This should be resolved in favor of the candidate. The were 170 absentee ballots in one county alone from which there were zero tallied write-in votes for Mr. Curtis. I have been deposed as have many others that we did, in fact, write him in AND shade in the bubble as required by law. The county clerk simple didn’t tally write-ins. There are other counties where zero write-ins were tallied. Despite all that he still came within 26 votes of the required number from counties other than the two most populous in the state.