The Silver City Daily Press will have stories in today’s edition dealing with two hot-button issues: eminent domain and paper ballot systems.
Earlier this week, I requested a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of the Grant County election returns. When I began to review the numbers yesterday, I noticed something peculiar: the early vote tallies did not come close [...]

So, none of the races here in Grant County were affected by anything overnight (for more on those races, check here).
Regionally, it looks like Al Kissling pulled in 40 percent of the vote against Steve Pearce, a remarkable number considering Kissling’s lack of funding and political experience. He performed better than Gary King did in [...]

OK, just to get this out there for those who are wondering:

Grant County Sheriff
Raul Holguin (D): 3,958 58.64%
James Koons (R): 2,792 41.36%
(I have to say, I didn’t think this race would be such a blowout. Bully came close to 60%, despite the negative campaign (on both sides) and with Koons outspending [...]

We’re on CATS — channels 17 and 19 on Grant County cable — starting at 7:15. We’ll bring you the latest on election results in the county, state and nationwide.

Well, so far it looks like Grant County will see an incredible turnout, at least by recent standards, in today’s election.
I visited 7 precincts this afternoon to check on turnout and see if there had been any problems. Uniformly, poll workers told me the day had been a smooth one and there had been no [...]

There was a huge influx of early voters on Friday and Saturday, if you compare the numbers from Thursday to the numbers released by Grant County clerk Howie Morales yesterday:

So, it looks like the party breakdown of the early voters remained unchanged, with 66 percent of early voters calling themselves Democrats. Registered Republicans made up [...]

Tomorrow night I’ll once again host live election coverage on Community Access Television of Silver City.
The show will being at 7:15 p.m., and Grant County Clerk Howie Morales tells me we’ll have most of the results by 7:30. He’s sponsoring the show, because he knows how important it is to get this information out to [...]

See today’s Silver City Daily Press for more.
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Gov. Bill Richardson stopped by Penny Park this afternoon for a campaign rally with local Democratic candidates and area supporters.
Richardson urged support for the Democratic ticket, including Jeff Bingaman, James Lewis, Mary Herrera and Hector Balderas. He also highlighted Gary King, Jim Baca and Sandy Jones as candidates in tight, important races.
He then spoke [...]

So, like Julia’s crew up north, we’ve completed our discussion on endorsements, and we’ll be publishing those endorsements tomorrow. It’s a busy time at the office, needless to say. I’d like to echo Julia’s sentiments:
Also, if you are a political candidate reading this, I have a bone to pick with (almost) all of you. Hire [...]

Via Headwaters News comes this NY Times piece on Bernalillo and Placitas, and voters living in the northern New Mexico communities:
In interviews with nearly two dozen people in Bernalillo, a small, mostly Hispanic town on Route 66, and its neighbor, Placitas, which is more affluent and increasingly more Republican, voters expressed their concerns about the [...]

That’s right, the only debate Pearce would agree to — held at 4:30 in the afternoon in August — which he prevented from being broadcast. Heath Haussamen obtained the video from the Al Kissling campaign. The 56-minute debate is available by clicking on this link. Haussaman adds:
While we’re on the subject of debate ducking, here’s [...]