Jerome Block Jr., who has rejected invitations to appear at a pair of League of Women Voters forums, also won't be appearing in the league's upcoming voter guide.

Block, a Democrat running for the Public Regulation Commission, didn't provide accessible information in time for the guide's Tuesday deadline, according to Meredith Machen, vice president of the league's Santa Fe County chapter.

The league mailed a questionnaire in August to all area candidates. The PRC section asked candidates what experience they would bring to the job, what they consider the biggest issues and other questions. But the league couldn't open Block's attachments to an e-mail reply dated Sept. 2 and repeated calls to his campaign went unanswered, Machen said.

She said the league sent the e-mail to computer technicians at Outside Magazine and elsewhere, but no one could open the attachment. She said her husband tried to glean issue-related information from Block's Web site to put in the voter guide, but the site consists mostly of photographs.

"It's semioutrageous that we aren't getting any response to any calls, any e-mails whatsoever," Machen said.

While Block's opponent, Green Party member Rick Lass, elaborated at length to the questions, Block's place on the page has a league disclaimer: "Mr. Block's campaign sent answers to our questionnaire in an electronic form that none of the computer experts we consulted could open. Over a period of two weeks, we made several requests by both phone and e-mail for the response to be resubmitted in MS WORD, but we never heard back from Mr. Block's campaign staff."

Tuesday night, Block said he was trying to reach his spokesman, Jonathan Valdez, to learn what happened. "He assured me that he sent it, so I'm going to talk with him because this was two weeks ago," Block said. "That's a little disturbing because I made every effort to make sure we appeared in the guide."

Block sent The New Mexican what he sent to the league, but efforts to open the attachment were unsuccessful.

Valdez said he sent his responses Sept. 4. "We did resend with the different attachment, and I figure they had gotten it open," he said.

"Man, if he sent anything back on the fourth, it didn't come to me," Machen said after reviewing her e-mail, which she said showed she sent Valdez four e-mails, most recently Friday.

Machen said the voter guide will be circulated Oct. 3.