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May 13, 2024 - New Mexico Shooting Sports Association (NMSSA) Annual Meeting
Protecting Your Rights and the 2nd Amendment in New Mexico Since 1935
I am honored to be a member of the NMSSA Board since 2021. Although I play a small part in the organization, NMSSA has been successful in helping to protect our right to keep and bear arms in New Mexico against progressives who don't seem to understand firearms or their legitimate constitionally protected role in our society.
May 10, 2024 - BallotReady - Bernco Primary Election candidates.
"Just the facts, ma'am" (Dragnet)
This is a great site for basic candidate information. This information appears to be derived from LinkedIn.
May 10, 2024 - Signs going up!
First Sign
May 8, 2024 - The new Turning Point Action App is worth taking a look at.
An easy way to help get your favorite candidate elected!
Please see my substack article for details.
May 4, 2024 - AFSCME Council 18 Endorsement
I am happy to announce that AFSCME Council 18 has chosen to endorse me for my primary.
Please see my substack article for details. It is important to note that this endorsement is based on my answers to questions directly related to Bernalillo County employment. Other non-employment political stands often supported by "Labor" Unions were not discussed.
May 1, 2024 - Looking for help with campaign signs
When "they" tear it down you put it back up.
Many years ago I used to help with campaign signs for politicians that I supported. Although they were yard signs my yard was pretty secluded so it would only reach my immediate neighbors.
Instead of placing on sign in my yard I spread signs out along my daily work commute. I selected key locations and checked the signs along my route morning and night. Whenever I saw that someone had damaged or removed the signs I was maintaining I would replace the sign on my way home from work.
I would like to employ a similar strategy with my signs. I am looking for people who are willing to help me place and keep my signs in place. Would you be willing to help?
If so, please consider volunteering using either of these two links:
April 28, 2024 - UPDATE on Random Precinct Selection Process
Human error is the most likely explanation.
As mentioned earlier, we have received copies of the precinct selection tools from the SOS for 2022 and 2023. Although the 2022 tool did not translate the random dice rolls into random precinct selections, in my opinion based on the data, it is quite obvious what happened. The precincts in the data posted by the SOS which was used in the tool were only partially sorted. There is no requirement for it to be sorted when posted.
It seems the auditor accumulated counts on the non-sorted precincts. These accumulated counts are essential to make the correct precinct selections. After that, presumably because they noticed that the precincts were not sorted correctly, they then moved each out of order precinct and its associated data to the correct location. This broke the brackets used for selecting precincts associated with many of the dice rolls.
From a practical perspective, there were too many out of order precincts to manually move by hand as described above. Most likely the method they used was to run an excel sort on the data AFTER the the counts were accumulated. Thus, the brackets were broken in many locations. At this point they could have recalculated the accumulations which would have corrected the broken brackets but they failed to do so.
This appears to be a human error and should not repeat itself with proper training. In fact, it did not happen in the 2023 audit and the 2023 tool looks fine. In my opinion, the 2023 tool worked as intended and correctly translated the random dice rolls into the corresponding random precinct selections.
April 25, 2024 - This is IMPORTANT! SECRETARY OF STATE OFFICE RELEASES AUDIT.
Thanks to NMFOG!
Technically, the SOS released the precinct selection normalization tool. I have been requesting access to this tool since June of 2023 and have been denied access until now. More importantly, the SOS now knows that we are watching them and they cannot withhold this data from us in the future.
This is a key component of the Post Election System Check as it is currently implemented. This tool converts a dice rolls into selected precincts based on voter data. As covered in my causes page, there were some issues with the randomness of the precincts selected for hand counts in the 2022 Election post elections system check. Now we should have the data we need to understand what went wrong and to hopefully ensure process changes are made to prevent this from happening again in the future.
I can't thank the NM FOG enough. They did what nobody else I approached was willing or able to accomplish. Please consider donating to them to keep this non-partisan organization which is dedicated to open government in New Mexico fully funded for future work on the behalf of all New Mexicans.
April 16, 2024 - Published in today's Albuquerque Journal OPINION: Voters deserve assurances their votes are being counted as intended.
We have controls in place to make sure your vote is counted as intended.
Please get out and vote! Also, if you have time and interest, please get involved in election working or monitoring. We can use the help!
April 12, 2024 - in Local news channel 13 report.
A little distraction.
In news unrelated to my campaign I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to make local news. When I said "what I saw" I meant what I saw in a document not what I saw in person. Please see my April 02, 2024 news post below for more information. Thank you!
April 08, 2024 - Trust but verify.
It's not just for negotiating with the Russians.
April 03, 2024 - Our campaign vehicle
2005 Rav4.
It survived two teenagers and still has only 107,000 miles! Ready for more miles to be added!
April 02, 2024 - Did you know that you can be the public's eyes and ears to help monitor our elections as an election challenger, watcher or observer?
Please help with election integrity!
Here is more info from the New Mexico Secretary of State's official website. Election Challengers, Watchers & Observers Information
You can also become a paid election official for your county. Here is a link for Bernalillo county: Become an Election Board Official
March 24, 2024 - New Video - Very Long
See how Clay Pryor and Robert Kwasny differ on the issues important to the County Clerk.
It is two hours so please watch it if you have time on your hands and are interested in the differing perspectives of your two Republican candidates for Bernalillo County Clerk. This was completely ad hoc and unrehearsed. BTW, IPRA stands for Inspection of Public Records Act. Emerge Discussion - Robert Kwasny & Clay Pryor
March 18, 2024 - Thanks to my old friend and boss, Pat Milligan, our campaign was mentioned in today's Joe Monahan Report
Thank you for being a friend!
Thank you Pat for being such a great manager at Sandia National Labs and for continuing to support me even after retirement!
March 15, 2024 - New Article: Why does the Post Election System Check matter to all New Mexicans?
The source of the problem has been identified and was corrected for the 2023 election.
I just published the above article on Substack discussing why a certain audit, enshrined in New Mexico law, is important to all New Mexico voters. Please consider reading it and follow me on Substack.
March 12, 2024 - Filed for candidacy
We are officially in the race!
Today was the one and only day to file for candidacy for the office of Bernalillo County Clerk. Thanks to all of my supporters so far! Looks like we made it!
Paid for by Clay Pryor for NM