New Mexico Caucus update - 020608
The full scope of this mess came into view today.
My guess is that by tomorrow night we will have a full tilt National disaster on our hands.
Besides all the voters that walked away without voting and other assorted problems consider one number - there are over 16,000 provisional ballots to be counted. Lets break this down - a volunteer organization has to open up and decide if 16,000 ballots are valid then count them.
If this process takes on average 10 minutes per ballots the numbers are as follows:
16,000 ballots/6 ballots per hour = 2,6667 "man hours"/8 hours per day = 333.3 days of effort = 66.7 weeks = 1.28 years
If we have robots running at obscene rates and on average do a ballot a minute:
16,000 ballots/60 ballots per hour = 266.7 "man hours"/8 hours per day = 33.3 days of effort = 6.7 weeks
So good luck getting them counted!
This is the danger of provisional ballots run-a-muck. They each take at least 100x as much time to deal with as a regular ballot and handing 'em out like candy is insane.
I think New Mexico just learned a lesson the rest of the US needs to pay close attention to -
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