here and here In a letter to county clerks last week, Duran said her office is trying to determine why an automated program isn’t working properly to match voter registration information with monthly lists of deaths from the state’s vital records office. Ortiz said it’s possible the coding of the death records is causing problems. Duran said the state can’t purge its voter registration files of inactive voters this year or in 2013 because her predecessor didn’t follow procedures that allow for that under federal law, such as sending out notices to determine whether a voter’s address remains valid.
A review of election records has found 641 dead New Mexicans remain on voter registration rolls, a top official in the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday. That information will be part of a report to the Legislature on preliminary findings of a review of voter registration records, said Ken Ortiz, chief of staff for Secretary of State Dianna Duran. The report may be released as early as Thursday. He said the office hasn’t been able to determine if any ballots were cast using the names of dead voters because it is still trying to get the dates of deaths.
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Duran’s office has been examining voter files, including checking that against personal information in driver’s license and Social Security records. Ortiz said that review continues and the report to lawmakers will provide an “update of where we are at, what we’ve been able to identify and what we are working on.”
Duran also said that some New Mexicans are being asked to complete new registration applications because of possible irregularities in their voter information. That includes possible errors on names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, according to Ortiz.
Denise Lamb, who runs the elections bureau in Santa Fe County and is a former state elections director, said county elections officials check death notices published in local newspapers to try to update voter files.