{"id":3941,"date":"2008-11-04T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/election-day-voting-appears-to-be-running-smoothly\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:38:00","slug":"election-day-voting-appears-to-be-running-smoothly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/election-day-voting-appears-to-be-running-smoothly\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day voting appears to be running smoothly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve already reported the bad news in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> about the thousands of absentee ballots that are <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/absentee-ballot-snafu-how-many-wont-get.html\">still outstanding<\/a>. Now it\u2019s time for some relatively good news:  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Election Day voting appears to be running fairly smoothly, and turnout is good, several voters and people working the election say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">County spokesman Jess Williams said all 117 polling places opened on time this morning. A few poll workers were late or didn\u2019t show up, but Bureau of Elections staffers went to those sites to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/aptheend11-04-08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a>, the election appears to be running fairly smoothly statewide. In addition, the secretary of state put out a news release stating that there have been no major problems anywhere in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For stories about voters\u2019 experiences in <st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename>, check out this article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/ci_10896709\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Update, 3:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Check out the line of people waiting to vote today at Booker T. Washington Elementary in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. Thanks to Cathy Chavez for sending in this photo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SRDPQ2lYxxI\/AAAAAAAAJQc\/oWCh3J_KBDg\/s1600-h\/washingtonelementary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SRDPQ2lYxxI\/AAAAAAAAJQc\/oWCh3J_KBDg\/s1600\/washingtonelementary.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264935852833294098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve already reported the bad news in Do\u00f1a Ana County about the thousands of absentee ballots that are still outstanding. Now it\u2019s time for some relatively good news: Election Day voting appears to be running fairly smoothly, and turnout is good, several voters and people working the election say. County spokesman Jess Williams said all [&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-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}