Based on KKOB AM this morning, Torres Small made a 5,000-vote swing with 8,000 absentee ballots. She was behind by 2,000, and went on to win by 3,000. Bovine excrement.
If they counted all 8,000, to take a 3,000 vote lead after being behind by 2,000 votes, she'd have had to take 81.25% of those ballots (R had X. D had X-2,000 on Tuesday night).
A 2,000-vote deficit leaves 6,000 total ballots after bringing her even with the R.
Then D goes ahead by 3,000. From 6,000, that leaves 3,000. Out of that 3,000, R and D split evenly in order for D to maintain 3,000-vote lead. That means the D got 6,500 out of 8,000 votes from those absentee ballots that were left. That's 81.25% in a county where she averaged around 68%.
This was all from Dona Ana County which is Las Cruces. It’s obvious that Torres Small supporters, or outsiders paid with money from the far left libs, went throughout the area registering everyone they could find, likely poor Hispanics, legal or illegal, and providing them with absentee ballot applications. It would be interesting to see how many of those ballots show down ballot picks or just top of the ballot choices.