{"id":209991,"date":"2016-11-04T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=209991"},"modified":"2016-11-04T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T23:28:21","slug":"democrats-share-of-voter-turnout-in-nm-continues-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/11\/democrats-share-of-voter-turnout-in-nm-continues-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats&#8217; share of voter turnout in NM continues to drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_199488\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-199488\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2-771x494.jpg\" alt=\"Early voting\" width=\"771\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2-771x494.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2-336x215.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2-1170x750.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2-780x500.jpg 780w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10.19.16-Voting2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center along Motel Boulevard in Las Cruces reminding people to vote.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republicans and independents have continued to\u00a0gain ground on Democrats in voter turnout in New Mexico this week.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>View the data<\/h3>\n<p>For this article, we used\u00a0data on in-person and absentee voting by county, through the close of business on Thursday, from the Secretary of State&#8217;s Office. View it here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/11.3.16.InPersonVoting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In-person voting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/11.3.16.AbsenteeVoting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Absentee voting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Through Thursday, 376,088 New Mexicans had voted in person,\u00a0according to data provided by the Secretary of State\u2019s Office. Fifty percent of them were Democrats &#8212; down from 52 percent of in-person voters\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/10\/trump-campaigns-in-abq-as-gop-cuts-into-dems-lead-in-nm-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\">through Oct. 29<\/a> and 58 percent <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/10\/early-voting-continues-to-favor-democrats-in-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">through Oct. 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans accounted for 35.7 percent of all in-person voters through Thursday, while independents and members of other parties accounted for 14.3 percent. Those\u00a0are up from 30 percent and 12 percent, respectively, through Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats&#8217; share of returned absentee ballots in New Mexico, meanwhile, fell to 45.5 percent through Thursday. That&#8217;s down from 47 percent of absentee voters\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/10\/trump-campaigns-in-abq-as-gop-cuts-into-dems-lead-in-nm-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\">through\u00a0Oct. 29<\/a> and 49 percent <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/10\/early-voting-continues-to-favor-democrats-in-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">through\u00a0Oct. 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 52,639 New Mexicans had returned absentee ballots by Thursday. Republicans accounted for 39.5 percent of those, while independents and members of other parties accounted for 15 percent. Those are up from 37 percent and 14 percent, respectively, through Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and Republicans are both voting\u00a0thus far in higher numbers than their share of registration, while fewer independents are turning out than are registered. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/uploads\/FileLinks\/c2426e22e02d478ca940282b232f0647\/STATEWIDE_11_3_16.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">As of Nov. 3<\/a>, 47 percent of registered voters in New Mexico were\u00a0Democrats, 31 percent were\u00a0Republicans, and 22 percent\u00a0were\u00a0independents or members of other parties.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are nearly 1.3 million registered voters in New Mexico. A third of them had voted by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Early in-person voting continues through Saturday. Tuesday is Election Day, and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Absentee ballots can be returned until 7 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Do\u00f1a Ana County, learn\u00a0how and where you can\u00a0vote by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaanacounty.org\/elections\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pollingmap.sos.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to find out how and where you can\u00a0vote if you&#8217;re anywhere in New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans and independents have continued to gain ground on Democrats in voter turnout in New Mexico this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708],"class_list":["post-209991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209991","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=209991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}