Sep 28, 2024 - ABQ Journal County Clerk questions and my answers

Any system can be improved. I have the knowledge, experience, and leadership abilities to do it.

These answers had a strict word limit so I had to be terse. Hopefully I was not so terse that I wasn't clear. Please feel free to use our Contact Us link to provide feedback.

The article can be found here.

Thank you.

Sep 11, 2024 - OPINION: County clerk systems can be improved to better serve the public

Published in the September 12th print issue of the Albuquerque Journal

The Albuquerque Journal published my article in response to their invitation for candidates to contribute. In it I discuss my background and experience that will enable me to lead the continuous improvement of all systems used in the county clerk's office to serve you the public.

The article can be found here.

As always, thank you for your support.

August 19, 2024 - Campaign Finance Update

Thanks to all who have contributed!

Thanks to my wonderful supporters we are now stocked up on signs and palm cards! Any future donations will now go to our next major effort which will be reaching out to absentee voters! I won't go into details but we have a very cost-effective way to reach them. Please consider supporting that effort! Thank you.

August 7, 2024 - Can we trust the tabulators in NM?

The answer is yes. Don't let anybody fool you with unsubstantiated conjectures and accusations.

I am often asked to speak to small groups. Recently my talks have been about my candidacy for Bernalillo County Clerk. Prior to running for County Clerk I was asked to speak about my investigation into the use of tabulators in New Mexico. Whenever I speak as a candidate for County Clerk I try to incorporate my understanding of our voting systems into my talk. Details of my investigations, conclusions, and recommendations can be found on my Causes tab of this website.

I know many people who have sincere questions about the use of tabulators in New Mexico. I was one of them so I sought to find answers for myself. As an educator in my college years and as someone who cares for the truth, I am very happy to share what I have learned with others who are interested. I can handle sincere questions and will find answers to questions that I do not already know the answer to.

Unfortunately there are those who do not appear to be sincere. Often times they have a "gotcha attitude" and will not listen to reasonable answers. Many of them claim to be republicans or independents. They will often accuse those who do not agree with them as being Republicans in Name Only (RINOs).

Some of these people have done a very good job at discouraging other people from voting with catchy phrases like "selections not elections." I have met many people who question why they should even vote since the elections are "rigged." I believe that, at least for New Mexico and Bernalillo County, I have solid answers for them. I provide references and follow-up actions that they can take to evaluate whether or not what I claim is true. Unfortunately, often they don't follow-up with my recommendations and choose to believe the perpetrators of catchy phrases instead.

Recently I was invited to speak to a non-partisan group where one of those "gotcha" people and some of his followers were in the audience. I have past experiences with his "gotcha" questions and have answered them effectively with facts and data. This time he listened to my talk (because he was required to by the moderator) and then in the Q&A took a new approach to get me. This time he asked me if I would be a "champion" for one of his causes. I answered "no" and tried to provide my reasons why but he and his buddies scoffed at me so they and the audience probably did not hear my reason why.

I hope everyone who questions the legitimacy of the elections in New Mexico will stop parroting what other people tell them and participate instead. Our elections are free, fair, AND TRANSPARENT. If you doubt it you too can learn for yourself by participating in them as more than a voter. With the proper training you can become a Poll Worker (and get paid) or you can be a Poll Challenger, Poll Watcher, and in some cases a Poll Observer. I would suggest you be a Poll Worker or Poll Observer. In these roles you can participate in all phases of the elections including early voting, day of voting, absentee and mail ballot acceptance, and, most importantly to me and often the most neglected, the post election system check.

Instead of being a complainer/follower/instigator, why not get involved to make a difference for the good of all? As a civil society, we must comply with applicable laws and procedures. If we don't like them, we can work through proper channels to change them. As a law-abiding citizen, that is the approach that I choose to take. I highly encourage all citizens to take the same approach.

August 1, 2024 - Please "volunteer" to be a poll worker!

It does pay but it is also a way to volunteer to contribute to election integrity!

June 5, 2024 - We won!

Thanks to all of my supporters!

June 1, 2024 - Albuquerque Journal Endorsement

Thank you Albuquerque Journal Editors!

May 25, 2024 - Interview with Freedom Families United on The Rock of Talk Radio

Thank you to Casey and Micayle for having me on their show!

Please click on the image below to hear my portion of the show.

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 - Signs going up!

First Sign

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.

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 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 08, 2024 - Trust but verify.

It's not just for negotiating with the Russians.

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 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 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!