{"id":1519,"date":"2007-04-03T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/las-cruces-voter-turnout-really-is-spotty\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T22:42:00","slug":"las-cruces-voter-turnout-really-is-spotty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/las-cruces-voter-turnout-really-is-spotty\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Cruces&#8217; voter turnout really is spotty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Do\u00f1a Ana County Elections Supervisor Lynn Ellins\u2019 description of today\u2019s voter turnout as \u201cspotty\u201d appears to be appropriate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Turnout is consistently low in the north and south, but in and around <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>, some precincts have ten times the votes of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At 2:30 p.m., one precinct at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Picacho<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Middle School<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> had more than 100 votes cast, while the other precinct there had about 20. Though at 3:15 p.m. one precinct 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> had 304 voters, one at the Branigan Library had only 28 voters by 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere doesn\u2019t seem to be any rhyme or reason or pattern,\u201d Ellins said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He estimated that 10,000 to 12,000 people will vote today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do\u00f1a Ana County Elections Supervisor Lynn Ellins\u2019 description of today\u2019s voter turnout as \u201cspotty\u201d appears to be appropriate. Turnout is consistently low in the north and south, but in and around Las Cruces, some precincts have ten times the votes of others. At 2:30 p.m., one precinct at Picacho Middle School had more than 100 [&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-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}