{"id":1213,"date":"2007-02-06T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/lcps-election-sees-few-problems-few-voters\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T23:14:00","slug":"lcps-election-sees-few-problems-few-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/lcps-election-sees-few-problems-few-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"LCPS election sees few problems, few voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RckL2N4KdNI\/AAAAAAAAAy0\/rWtXHQHgVgs\/s1600-h\/Schoolboardelection.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RckL2N4KdNI\/AAAAAAAAAy0\/rWtXHQHgVgs\/s200\/Schoolboardelection.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5028563485001938130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It appears to be a rather uneventful Election Day for the Las Cruces Public Schools.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On one hand, that\u2019s good: It means there haven\u2019t been that many problems. One the other hand, it means voter turnout isn\u2019t that high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But it never has been for school board elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As of 2 p.m., 84 people had cast votes at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placetype st=\"on\">Highland<\/st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Elementary School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> in the District 5 race between incumbent Sharon Wooden and challengers Connie Phillips and David Morgan. That\u2019s out of almost 2,600 registered voters assigned to that polling place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also in District 5, 152 people had voted by 2:15 p.m. at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Camino<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Real<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Middle School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> out of approximately 3,500 assigned to that location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By 3 p.m., 79 people had cast votes at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Tombaugh<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Elementary School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> in the District 4 race between Larry Garcia and Bonnie Votaw. That\u2019s out of almost 1,600 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Jornada<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Elementary School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> in District 4, 49 people had voted by 3:30 p.m. out of more than 2,200 assigned to that location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A total of 296 people voted early in the LCPS elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In 2003, the last time these seats were up for election, a combined 2,407 people voted in Districts 4 and 5 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019ll post election results as soon as they are available this evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears to be a rather uneventful Election Day for the Las Cruces Public Schools. On one hand, that\u2019s good: It means there haven\u2019t been that many problems. One the other hand, it means voter turnout isn\u2019t that high. But it never has been for school board elections. As of 2 p.m., 84 people had [&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-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}