Los Alamos County audit confirms June primary vote tabulation matched hand count
A June 24 audit at the County Clerk’s Warehouse found every hand count in Precinct 3 matched the machine tally, covering early, absentee and Election Day ballots.
On June 24 at the County Clerk’s Warehouse in the Los Alamos Municipal Building, Los Alamos County’s required post-election audit found no mismatch between the hand count and the machine count for the June 2 primary. It covered ballots from Precinct 3 in the Secretary of State race.
County Clerk Michael Redondo appointed a bipartisan team of election workers to oversee the process, and Zlotnik & Sandoval, PC, carried out the audit. The audit compared hand-counted ballots with the county’s machine-tabulated results using statistical methods, and the hand count matched the machine count exactly across early voting, absentee voting and Election Day ballots.
New Mexico uses paper ballots for every vote, keeps tabulators air-gapped from computer networks and the internet, tests tabulators before each election, and canvasses and audits the results afterward. For statewide elections, the Secretary of State’s office also conducts a risk-limiting audit by randomly selecting races and precincts and comparing hand counts with machine counts.
State law, N.M. Stat. § 1-14-13.2, requires the Secretary of State to contract with an auditor to oversee the voting system check and requires the random precinct sample to be publicly selected no later than 12 days after the election. In Los Alamos, the verified results were submitted to Zlotnik & Sandoval and to the New Mexico Secretary of State as required, and the audit results will be available for public viewing on the clerk’s website.
County election information lists early voting from May 5 through May 30, 2026. Los Alamos County had 23 of 23 precincts fully reported, while statewide turnout in the primary was 24.60%, with 346,460 ballots cast.
In Los Alamos County, Democrat Katharine E. Clark received 1,928 votes, Amanda López Askin received 948 votes, and Republican Ramona L. Goolsby received 950 votes.
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