{"id":786,"date":"2006-10-30T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/my-voting-experience-was-a-success\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T23:32:00","slug":"my-voting-experience-was-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/my-voting-experience-was-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"My voting experience was a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/DonaAnaCounty.18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/DonaAnaCounty.15.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I\u2019m happy to report I went to the Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center to vote today, and everything worked as it should.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of five early voting sites in the county and, as of about 3:45 p.m., almost 600 people had voted there today.<\/p>\n<p>There was no line when I arrived (though there was by the time I left), so I walked straight up to the poll workers. One asked for identification, just as she was supposed to, and I handed her the most convenient one I had, my driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>After a moment, another poll worker handed me a paper with my name and address printed on it, and I had to sign the sheet to verify I was that person. She handed me a ballot and described to me how I was to fill it out.<\/p>\n<p>It was easy to fill out, and when I was done, a man explained to me how to feed my ballot into an electronic machine. It was simple.<\/p>\n<p>I stood and watched for a couple of minutes, and others received the same instruction I did. No one seemed to be having problems.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say there aren\u2019t problems at the site in Anthony. Clearly, something went down there on Saturday. But my experience was a success.<\/p>\n<p>Score one for the Do\u00f1a Ana County Bureau of Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m happy to report I went to the Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center to vote today, and everything worked as it should. It\u2019s one of five early voting sites in the county and, as of about 3:45 p.m., almost 600 people had voted there today. There was no line when I arrived (though there was [&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-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}