LCPS election sees few problems, few voters

It appears to be a rather uneventful Election Day for the Las Cruces Public Schools.

On one hand, that’s good: It means there haven’t been that many problems. One the other hand, it means voter turnout isn’t that high.

But it never has been for school board elections.

As of 2 p.m., 84 people had cast votes at Highland Elementary School in the District 5 race between incumbent Sharon Wooden and challengers Connie Phillips and David Morgan. That’s out of almost 2,600 registered voters assigned to that polling place.

Also in District 5, 152 people had voted by 2:15 p.m. at Camino Real Middle School out of approximately 3,500 assigned to that location.

By 3 p.m., 79 people had cast votes at Tombaugh Elementary School in the District 4 race between Larry Garcia and Bonnie Votaw. That’s out of almost 1,600 registered voters.

And at Jornada Elementary School in District 4, 49 people had voted by 3:30 p.m. out of more than 2,200 assigned to that location.

A total of 296 people voted early in the LCPS elections.

In 2003, the last time these seats were up for election, a combined 2,407 people voted in Districts 4 and 5 – 1,105 in District 4 and 1,302 in District 5. There are currently 12,539 registered voters in District 4 and 7,720 registered voters in District 5.

I’ll post election results as soon as they are available this evening.