{"id":18039,"date":"2010-06-01T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=18039"},"modified":"2010-06-01T19:12:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T01:12:54","slug":"clerk-%e2%80%98perfect-storm%e2%80%99-led-to-low-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/06\/clerk-%e2%80%98perfect-storm%e2%80%99-led-to-low-voter-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Clerk: \u2018Perfect storm\u2019 led to low voter turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10866\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10866\" title=\"Vote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vote-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vote-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vote.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by alphabunny_photos\/flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bernalillo County Clerk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernco.gov\/live\/departments.asp?dept=2315\">Maggie Toulouse Oliver<\/a> says a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of factors including the holiday weekend and negative advertising is to blame for the \u201cdismal\u201d turnout in today\u2019s Democratic and Republican primaries.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2 p.m., Election Day turnout in Bernalillo County today was a combined 3.24 percent in both parties\u2019 primaries. Toulouse Oliver described that as \u201cdismal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In primaries, she said, you\u2019re already starting with lower turnout than a general election because historically the races draw primarily the \u201cparty faithful.\u201d This election, however, comes a day after the Memorial Day holiday weekend. That created some practical problems \u2013 some poll workers quit at the last minute, and others got a late start in opening polling places.<\/p>\n<p>Toulouse Oliver said the holiday weekend probably also led to some people forgetting that today is Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Democrats don\u2019t have a competitive race at the top of the ticket to attract voters. The Republicans\u2019 top-of-the-ticket gubernatorial race has been characterized in the last couple of weeks by negative advertising, which Toulouse Oliver said might also lead to lower voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of that, I think, creates the perfect storm for low voter turnout,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s always an increase in turnout after people get off work around 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will get a rush at the polls,\u201d Toulouse Oliver said. \u201cHow heavy it is, of course, is the wild card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some 15.29 percent of Republicans and 8.6 percent of Democrats voted early and absentee in Bernalillo County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/early-voting-numbers-from-bernalillo-county\/\">as of Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver says a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of factors including the holiday weekend and negative advertising is to blame for the \u201cdismal\u201d turnout in today\u2019s Democratic and Republican primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,157,107],"class_list":["post-18039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-bernalillo-county","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039","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=18039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}