Topic: Otero County

Otero County, New Mexico, held a public hearing regarding the removal of voting machines from future elections in favor of hand-counting paper ballots. While hand-counting is acknowledged as painstaking, it is presented as a necessary solution to ensure election integrity. Similar efforts by citizens in Utah to access election records have reportedly been met with federal interference.

David Clements proposes a "county commission strategy" where citizens demand that local officials move to an all-paper, hand-counted voting system. He cites successes in Nye County, Nevada, and Rio Blanco, Colorado, where commissioners voted to bypass electronic machines. Clements argues that focusing on local "no confidence" votes is more effective than waiting for state legislatures or the judiciary to act on election integrity.