{"id":1542,"date":"2007-04-04T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/officials-reviewing-election-results-provisional-ballots\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T22:14:00","slug":"officials-reviewing-election-results-provisional-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/officials-reviewing-election-results-provisional-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials reviewing election results, provisional ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhQjs3bEsgI\/AAAAAAAAB5o\/rJ3wjW1tkt8\/s1600-h\/Results.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhQjs3bEsgI\/AAAAAAAAB5o\/rJ3wjW1tkt8\/s400\/Results.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049700335887888898\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A day after the spaceport tax election in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do\u00f1a Ana County<\/a>, elections workers were double checking unofficial results and beginning the process of sorting through provisional ballots.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">County officials didn\u2019t release any new numbers today. The last numbers reported give spaceport tax supporters a 204-vote, 1.2-percent lead \u2013 8,781 votes to 8,577 \u2013 with 541 provisional ballots to be considered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">County spokesman Jess Williams said no new information would be released until the commission convened as the canvassing board Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One question that remained Tuesday night related to the polling place at Booker T. Washington Elementary in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. Tax supporters believed the polling place had already been counted when, just before 11 p.m., officials announced its results had just been tallied because a cartridge had been left locked at the school and had to be retrieved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Elections Supervisor Lynn Ellins had said moments earlier that officials were waiting only for results from a polling place in Chamberino where a cartridge was left behind and had to be retrieved. Tax supporters asked a lot of questions about the situation Tuesday night and today, saying the Chamberino and Booker T. Washington votes, which apparently both came in just before 11 p.m., changed the results significantly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Williams said officials are carefully reviewing the unofficial results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cObviously, we care about the integrity of the numbers, and if they change we want to be sure we can explain exactly how and why they changed,\u201d Williams said. \u201cAt this point, it doesn\u2019t look like it would affect the outcome of the unofficial results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The number of provisional ballots that will be counted likely dropped from 541 today. Staffers can\u2019t begin counting provisionals until the commission convenes as the canvassing board, but they spent today checking the names on the ballots to eliminate those that aren\u2019t from registered voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The commission meets at 9 a.m. Thursday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&amp;q=845+N+Motel+Blvd,+Las+Cruces,+New+Mexico+88005&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=32.059939,59.238281&#038;layer=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF8&#038;z=16&amp;ll=32.310494,-106.815605&#038;spn=0.008342,0.021501&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;om=1&amp;iwloc=addr\" target=\"_blank\">Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center<\/a> in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las   Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the spaceport tax election in Do\u00f1a Ana County, elections workers were double checking unofficial results and beginning the process of sorting through provisional ballots. County officials didn\u2019t release any new numbers today. The last numbers reported give spaceport tax supporters a 204-vote, 1.2-percent lead \u2013 8,781 votes to 8,577 \u2013 with 541 [&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-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}