{"id":1099,"date":"2007-01-16T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/school-board-candidate-worried-about-election-after-being-inadvertently-left-off-sample-ballot\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T14:05:00","slug":"school-board-candidate-worried-about-election-after-being-inadvertently-left-off-sample-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/school-board-candidate-worried-about-election-after-being-inadvertently-left-off-sample-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"School board candidate worried about election after being inadvertently left off sample ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education candidate David Morgan arrived to vote late Friday only to find that his name was not on the sample ballot. <\/p>\n

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The omission was a mistake, Do\u00f1a Ana County Elections Supervisor Lynn Ellins said, adding that he does not believe it had a negative effect because Morgan was the only person to cast a vote in the District 5 race on Friday, the first day of early voting.<\/p>\n

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Still, Morgan wasn\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMr. Ellins apologized, and I know mistakes happen,\u201d Morgan said in a news release. \u201cBut this is more than forgetting a dot and an \u2018I.\u2019 Oversights like this are part of the reason why he has been hired by Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> to oversee the local election process in the first place. I can\u2019t help but be worried about the possibility of other problems in the weeks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is an election to help determine who will choose our school district\u2019s next leader. Voters have to choose who will lead the hiring process for the next superintendent, as well as who will help clean up the legal mess from firing the previous one,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cWorrying about the integrity of the election is the last thing parents and educators need.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Morgan is one of two challengers to District 5 Board Member Sharon Wooden on Feb. 6. District 4 is also up for grabs. John Schwebke is not seeking re-election to that seat, but two others are running.<\/p>\n

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Ellins said the state-authorized printer of the ballots is \u201cway behind in deliveries.\u201d On Friday, he said, the office received a \u201cpartial delivery\u201d of the ballots for the Las Cruces Public Schools election, but not sample ballots. The office, he said, has received all official ballots for the Gadsden<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Hatch district elections, but no sample ballots for those districts, either.<\/p>\n

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Because of that, the office prepared its own sample ballots on Friday morning and, Ellins said, \u201cinadvertently omitted Morgan\u2019s name\u201d from the Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> ballot.<\/p>\n

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Ellins said Morgan arrived to vote late Friday and asked about his name being left off the sample ballot. He said he had a new, correct ballot printed within five minutes. Ellins also said he has written a letter of apology to Morgan.<\/p>\n

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But he also said he was offended by Morgan\u2019s criticism of his office, particularly his statement about the integrity of the election.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn an effort to ensure integrity of all three school district elections, the Bureau of Elections has gone as far as possible \u2013 and as far as it knows how \u2013 to make certain that potential poll workers involved in all three school board campaigns are not appointed as poll workers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have screened poll workers as best we can to achieve this objective.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn addition, on election day we will have bureau personnel stationed at all polling places where we expect problems to occur, especially in the Gadsden<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> district,\u201d Ellins said. \u201cMorgan’s concern is misstated, but certainly a nice PR thing for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Morgan, who is running on a platform of improving employee and parental involvement in the superintendent search, greater fiscal responsibility, increased salaries and reduction of what he calls a \u201ctop-heavy\u201d administration, recently started a blog to promote his candidacy. You can view it by clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education candidate David Morgan arrived to vote late Friday only to find that his name was not on the sample ballot. The omission was a mistake, Do\u00f1a Ana County Elections Supervisor Lynn Ellins said, adding that he does not believe it had a negative effect because Morgan was the […]<\/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-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","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=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}