{"id":457253,"date":"2017-11-07T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=457253"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:06:42","slug":"its-election-day-in-las-cruces-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/11\/its-election-day-in-las-cruces-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Election Day in Las Cruces! Here&#8217;s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_457347\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-457347\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Voting-771x578.jpg\" alt=\"Las Cruces City Hall\" width=\"771\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Voting-771x578.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Voting-336x252.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Voting-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Voting-1170x878.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Voting-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early voting at Las Cruces City Hall, shown here, concluded Saturday. You can&#8217;t vote at City Hall today, but there are 14 other places you can vote. Click on the link in the article to\u00a0see\u00a0them.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Polls are open today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Las Cruces&#8217; municipal election. Three\u00a0seats on the city council and a\u00a0judgeship are up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>You can vote at any of the 14 polling places that will be open across the city. Find the complete list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/~\/media\/lcpublicwebdev2\/site%20documents\/article%20documents\/city%20clerk\/november%207%20vcc\/november%207%20vcc.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some\u00a0sources of information\u00a0about the candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>League of Women Voters guide:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvglc.org\/documents\/VG_Municipal_2017_p1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 1<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvglc.org\/documents\/VG_Municipal_2017_p2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>KRWG-TV candidate forums: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MYQI-zr5iM0&amp;index=4&amp;list=PLwDUNF4sJjLs0thmVFNYdO5ym2kUy-pM4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Council District 3<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LNE8-kSkldA&amp;index=3&amp;list=PLwDUNF4sJjLs0thmVFNYdO5ym2kUy-pM4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 5<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gzfPTz3VSbY&amp;index=2&amp;list=PLwDUNF4sJjLs0thmVFNYdO5ym2kUy-pM4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 6<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r8A5nOMK8Po&amp;index=1&amp;list=PLwDUNF4sJjLs0thmVFNYdO5ym2kUy-pM4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Municipal judge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Las Cruces Sun-News profiles:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/10\/27\/city-council-courtney-and-vasquez-race-open-district-3-seat\/784310001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Council District 3<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/10\/28\/three-candidates-seek-district-5-city-council-seat\/807183001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 5<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/10\/26\/city-council-levatino-flores-vying-district-6-seat\/799573001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 6<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/10\/29\/municipal-judge-ii-three-candidates-city-wide-ballot\/807653001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Municipal judge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You can find the candidates&#8217; finance reports,\u00a0in addition to those\u00a0filed by political action committees and other basic information about the election, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/departments\/city-clerks-office\/municipal-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As NMPolitics.net reported last week, progressives have dominated city elections for a decade and <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/10\/progressives-aim-for-another-big-win-in-las-cruces-as-election-day-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sound confident again this year<\/a> &#8212; but anything is possible. Check\u00a0NMPolitics.net\u00a0throughout the day for any major\u00a0news\u00a0about voting. Come back this evening for election results. We&#8217;ll have complete coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three seats on the city council and a municipal judgeship are up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3334,145],"class_list":["post-457253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2017-election","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457253","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=457253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}