Letter to editor about concerns about his voter history

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Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018

Dear Editor:

My wife and I were long-time residents of Grant County and voted at our precincts like we were supposed to do as well as absentee while living out of state or out of Country (which is not an easy chore when living elsewhere). However, I checked the NM Secretary of State's page and found many discrepancies in my voter history. I have e-mailed them twice now, once in 2016 and again just recently to try to get an explanation of these discrepancies but have gotten nothing but the courtesy "we have received your e-mail."

So, for starters, I moved away in 1999 coming back into the USMC and tried to do my civic duty by voting whether in person or via absentee. As a conservative-minded individual and since I swore an oath to defend the Constitution, it is also my responsibility.

However, when I looked on the Secretary of State's page at my voting history I was surprised at what I found.

It shows my history from 1998 until the present. No results or who I voted for but that I voted or didn't vote.

For instance:

1998 voted in the primary and General election at Hurley elementary

2000 voted via absentee ballot (I was in Virginia and did vote via absentee)

2002 no vote

2004 I voted via absentee while living in Florida, but it is not on the page (so was it counted?).

2006 I did not vote, but I see I supposedly voted at Hurley Elementary (I was still in Florida at the time and that is physically impossible, so who voted in my place?).

2008 I voted via absentee due to the fact that I was deployed to Japan. However, it is not registered in my voting History (again, so was it counted?).

Like I said it is difficult enough to vote via absentee when you want to make your voice known, and both my wife and I have done it three times in 2000, 2004, and 2008, although I do not know for certain if my ballot was counted.

I was present from 2012 onward, but I changed to the county where I currently live after that election, so I am no longer on the voting roll in Grant County (or I shouldn't be). And while this is just my particular voting record (by the way, my wife's voting history mirrors mine and she has the same issues).

Does that mean NM is suppressing votes or committing Voter Fraud? I hope not, but if two people have been affected, how many more have been who haven't looked into their voter history?

Semper Fi
Major Cameron F. Clark USMC
"Deo Vindice"

P.S. I am a 1988 graduate of Silver High School and a graduate of Western New Mexico University in 1994.

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