{"id":40625,"date":"2012-06-05T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=40625"},"modified":"2012-06-05T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:10:34","slug":"election-running-smoothly-turnout-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/06\/election-running-smoothly-turnout-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Election running smoothly; turnout light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10866\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10866 \" title=\"Vote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Vote-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"212\" 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: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by alphabunny_photos\/flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Voting appears to be running relatively smoothly throughout the state on this primary Election Day, but officials expect light turnout.<\/p>\n<p>In Bernalillo and Do\u00f1a Ana counties, voters can now vote at any polling place, and officials in both counties say things are running fine. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_20786842\/turnout-light-primary-voters-praise-new-convenience-centers\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>, people like the new \u201cvoting convenience centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re at work during the day, you don\u2019t have to travel across the county to vote,\u201d the newspaper quoted Ed Romero, a Mesilla Park resident who voted in Las Cruces, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Results could be a little delayed this evening in Bernalillo County, Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said, because of a change in the configuration of machines to accommodate the new system that allows people to vote at any polling place. That\u2019s according to KOB-TV in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the news station\u2019s report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/S2644324.shtml?cat=500\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?aspect_ratio=16x9&amp;auto_next=0&amp;auto_start=0&amp;page_count=6&amp;pf_id=1297&amp;pl_id=13637&amp;rel=3&amp;show_title=0&amp;tags=default&amp;va_id=3538236&amp;volume=8&amp;windows=1\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Polls are open until 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: Voting appears to be running relatively smoothly throughout the state on this primary Election Day, but officials expect light turnout.<\/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":[156,157,115],"class_list":["post-40625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-bernalillo-county","tag-dona-ana-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40625","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=40625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}