{"id":8979,"date":"2009-11-05T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:24:12","slug":"dona-ana-county-election-official-picked-for-national-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/dona-ana-county-election-official-picked-for-national-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Do\u00f1a Ana County official picked for national board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8980\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8980\" title=\"Bartlesmeyer, Bob\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bartlesmeyer-Bob.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Bartlesmeyer\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Bartlesmeyer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The secretary of state has appointed Do\u00f1a Ana County\u2019s new elections supervisor to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eac.gov\/index_html1\">U.S. Election Assistance Commission<\/a> (EAC).<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/sos-SecBio.html\">Mary Herrera<\/a> made the announcement today that she\u2019s picked <a href=\"http:\/\/donaanacounty.org\/elections\/\">Bob Bartelsmeyer<\/a> to serve with her on the national commission, which is charged with helping states comply with the 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\/hava\/hava.htm\">Help America Vote Act<\/a> (HAVA).<\/p>\n<p>The independent, bipartisan board has 110 members. Half are state officials selected by states\u2019 chief election officials, and the other half are local election workers also picked by states\u2019 chief election officials.<\/p>\n<p>Bartlesmeyer was hired by Do\u00f1a Ana County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/meet-dona-ana-countys-new-elections-supervisor\/\">in August<\/a>. He has more than 25 years of experience in elections management, including 22 years as the county clerk in Lawrence County, Missouri \u2014 a position to which he was elected at age 21 and then held for six consecutive terms. Most recently, he served as absentee ballot coordinator in Palm Beach County, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>The EAC, according to the news release from Herrera, is \u201ccharged with developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary\u00a0voting system guidelines, and serving as a national clearinghouse of information about\u00a0election administration. The EAC also accredits testing laboratories and certifies\u00a0voting systems, as well as audits the use of HAVA funds. Other responsibilities include maintaining the\u00a0national mail voter registration form\u00a0developed in accordance with the\u00a0National Voter Registration Act of 1993.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretary of state has appointed Do\u00f1a Ana County\u2019s new elections supervisor to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[115,116],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","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=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}