ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: NM Democrats Can't Say How Many Scrap Paper Ballots Were Cast

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   You've waited patiently in line to vote, only to be told your name can't be found on registration rolls. Worse, they've run out of ballots at your polling station.     What to do?     Just scribble your name on a scrap of paper, list your preferred candidate and sign an affidavit declaring you're a registered Democrat in New Mexico.     They're called handwritten ballots, and they were used — apparently in limited numbers — for the Democratic Party's presidential caucus.     An Associated Press survey of Democratic Party chairs in most of New Mexico's 33 counties confirmed reports that scrap-paper ballots were used in the Feb. 5 caucus after some polling sites ran out of ballots.     State Democratic chairman Brian Colon couldn't say exactly how many handwritten ballots were processed among the more than 17,000 provisionals reviewed during the nine-day count that ended Thursday with Hillary Clinton's victory.