In New Mexico yesterday, the state Democratic Party accused its GOP counterpart of calling Democratic voters and falsely telling them their polling place has changed.
This morning, the AP reports, the Dems are asking a judge to immediately bar the GOP from calling any registered Democratic voters in the state.
In their defense, the New Mexico Republicans are saying it happened just once, and it was a mistake.
“It was one woman,” New Mexico GOP director Marta Kramer told the AP yesterday. “There were three other people in the voter file with the same name. The volunteer said ‘Hi’ and identified herself and left a phone number. She (the voter) called back and said this is who I am and gave her address and we gave her the correct information.” An account of one call obtained by TPMmuckraker indicates that the GOP volunteer identified herself as calling from the Republican party.
But in a conversation with me this morning, New Mexico Democratic Party director Matt Farrauto said the GOP had given incorrect information to more than just one Democrat.
“I am standing in front of four people who had it happen to them, and there’s a fifth woman who contacted me this morning,” Farrauto told me. The group was standing in the courthouse lobby, he said, waiting to meet with a judge who could order the GOP’s calls to stop.
Contacted by phone last night, the judge had verbally agreed to issue the injunction, but she had not yet signed the paperwork, Farrauto told me.
