{"id":33671,"date":"2011-11-08T13:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=33671"},"modified":"2011-11-08T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:44:56","slug":"voter-turnout-steady-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/11\/voter-turnout-steady-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter turnout steady in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33672\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33672 \" title=\"1108.Voting2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1108.Voting2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters at Desert Hills Elementary School (Photos by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There appears to be a steady stream of voters casting ballots at polling places all over Las Cruces in today\u2019s municipal election.<\/p>\n<p>Sources from all over the city have told NMPolitics.net about short but consistent lines of people waiting to vote at a number of polling places. In addition, an employee from the city clerk\u2019s office said the phones have been ringing off the hook with people from around the city calling to find their polling places.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have reported no major problems at any polling place.<\/p>\n<p>I witnessed lines of a handful of people waiting to vote at Highland and Desert Hills elementary schools. In the 2-3 minutes I was at each school, five or six people voted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33673\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33673 \" title=\"1108.Voting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1108.Voting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters at Highland Elementary School<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2007, the last time the mayor\u2019s office was up for grabs, turnout was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/final-results-from-las-cruces-municipal-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">about 24 percent<\/a>, which meant about 11,400 people voted.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still plenty of time to vote. Polls don\u2019t close until 7 p.m. To find your polling place, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/Departments\/Legal\/Services\/City%20Clerk\/~\/media\/Legal\/Documents\/2011%20Municipal%20Election%20-%20Polling%20Places.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any problems or questions, call the city clerk at (575) 541-2115.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There appears to be a steady stream of voters casting ballots at polling places all over Las Cruces in today\u2019s municipal election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145,214],"class_list":["post-33671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671","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=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}