County clerk say phantom votes won't be a problem 

Location: Bernalillo County    26 October 2004
Source:KRQE Albuquerque.

The unresolved issue of phantom votes in Bernalillo County apparently dates back several elections over two years.

County Clerk Mary Herrera acknowledged Monday that bogus votes have appeared in at least three elections.

She says the problem began when the county purchased new election software for the vote tally machines it uses on election night.

In one case, nearly four thousand phantom votes were added to just one race.

However, the clerk says her vote-counting experts have always found the phantom votes before they were added to the final tally.

“I feel confident that they would be able to detect if anything like this occurs on election night,” says Herrera.

The New Mexico Secretary of State's office says it will help Bernalillo county fix the problem after this year's election.

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