{"id":23042,"date":"2010-11-02T16:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2010-11-02T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:10:46","slug":"police-called-to-remove-gop-poll-challengers-at-two-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/police-called-to-remove-gop-poll-challengers-at-two-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Police called to remove GOP poll challengers at two sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Police have been called to two polling sites in Las Cruces today to remove Republican Party poll challengers who were being disruptive, Chief Deputy Clerk Mario Jimenez confirmed for NMPolitics.net.<\/p>\n<p>At precinct 25, a poll challenger was picking up poll workers\u2019 materials and \u201cthrowing them down on the table\u201d while being disruptive, Jimenez said. And at precinct 69, he said a poll challenger was \u201cyelling in the polling place\u201d and accusing the presiding judge of tampering with an absentee ballot when the judge was simply sealing the ballot according to procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez said both were asked to stop being disruptive, but did not. He also said the local county GOP was told about the situations and asked to take care of them an hour before police were called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was given a fair warning,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have been called to two polling sites in Las Cruces today to remove Republican Party poll challengers who were being disruptive, Chief Deputy Clerk Mario Jimenez confirmed for NMPolitics.net.<\/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":[108,115],"class_list":["post-23042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-dona-ana-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042","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=23042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}