- Lea County, NM data revealed issues: more votes were certified than identified voters.
- Jill Ashenfelter presented these results and her concerns at July’s County commission meeting public comments.
- The commission requested that Keith Manes and Jill Ashenfelter meet to review the data and resolve apparent discrepancies
The controversy about the 2020 presidential election continues unabated and is escalating in the news.
Jill Ashenfelter became curious about the integrity of elections in her county so submitted a voter information authorization request to the local county clerk’s office for results from this election.
Lea County is historically very conservative, and Trump was certified to have won this election by a solid margin.
Despite this majority, the data revealed issues: more votes were certified than identified voters, voters from out of the county were listed as voting in Lea County, and a very big difference in candidates selected between absentee votes and early and in-person votes.
Jill Ashenfelter presented these results and her concerns at July’s county commission meeting public comments.
The county clerk Keith Manes requested permission to respond and angrily defended the clerk’s election procedures.
The commission requested that Keith Manes and Jill Ashenfelter meet to review the data and resolve apparent discrepancies, and then they requested that the clerk present the findings to the clerk at the next scheduled commission meeting.
Jill Ashenfelter met the county clerk and the administrator of the bureau of elections and extensively reviewed the data, ERIC voter rolls and update procedures, discussed machine calibrations, post-election machine result validations, recent NM election result challenges in Otero and Lincoln Counties, recent documentaries, alleged vulnerabilities.
Using the Truth Freedom Health dialectic diagram, Jill Ashenfelter was able to bring the meeting from an adversarial, defensive meeting to an amenable meeting that focused on problem solving.
The meeting ended with both parties agreeing to read or watch the other person’s media sources before the next meeting.
The clerk agreed to capture the ERIC voter roll snapshot in time immediately after an election rather than to let it constantly evolve with updates.
In addition, the clerks offered to hand count an election and precinct of Jill Ashenfelter’s choosing to prove Dominion machine accuracy.
They also conceded that there are some vulnerabilities associated with absentee votes and lack of voter identification.
