{"id":1031,"date":"2006-12-20T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/ellins-wants-to-stay-on-as-elections-supervisor\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:47:00","slug":"ellins-wants-to-stay-on-as-elections-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/ellins-wants-to-stay-on-as-elections-supervisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellins wants to stay on as elections supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/1600\/Ellins%2C%20Lynn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/200\/Ellins%2C%20Lynn.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Lynn Ellins, who ran <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>\u2019s most successful election in recent years on Nov. 7, wants to keep the job.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The position of permanent elections supervisor was posted last week, and Ellins confirmed that he has applied. The last day to apply is Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Clerk Rita Torres hired Ellins in August to run the election as a temporary employee. He replaced Mari Langford, who Torres fired following problems with the June primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the time, Ellins, a former deputy secretary of state in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">Colorado<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, said he would stay on through the completion of the Nov. 7 election and related activities, but didn\u2019t know what he would do after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After the election, he said he would stay until sometime in January, when the last possible day to appeal anything related to the election passed, and said he would use his time to further implement the recommendations of this year\u2019s elections task force, which he co-chaired until he started working for the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There might be other applicants, and Torres could hire someone else, but it seems unlikely after the heaps of praise she has earned from Democrats and Republicans alike for hiring Ellins. It\u2019s great news that he has decided he wants to stay on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn Ellins, who ran Do\u00f1a Ana County\u2019s most successful election in recent years on Nov. 7, wants to keep the job. The position of permanent elections supervisor was posted last week, and Ellins confirmed that he has applied. The last day to apply is Dec. 26. Clerk Rita Torres hired Ellins in August to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}