{"id":108544,"date":"2015-10-29T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/final-days-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:37:10","slug":"final-days-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/final-days-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Final days to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Election
Election ballots are due Tuesday at the clerk\u2019s office and there\u2019s not enough time now to mail.<\/span>Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Stop. Don\u2019t take your ballot to the U.S. Post Office. Instead, drop it off at the Montezuma County Annex building on Main Street.<\/p>\n

Montezuma County Clerk and Recorder Kim Percell has cautioned voters that despite a statewide mail-in ballot election process, it is too late to trust the federal postal service this close to Election Day, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ballot would have to go to Albuquerque first before returning,\u201d said Percell. \u201cIt\u2019s best to drop off the ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Located on the corner of Main and Elm streets, the Montezuma County Clerk and Recorder office will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to receive ballots. Normal business hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., return on Monday, and on Election Day, the office is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Tuesday,\u201d Percell said.<\/p>\n

As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, Percell had received nearly 2,900 ballots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s about normal,\u201d she said. \u201cWe always have less voter participation in a coordinated election.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Election Day, Percell said, no motor-vehicle registrations would be issued. She said closing motor vehicle records for the day was aimed to prepare her staff for the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a learning process,\u201d said Percell, who is overseeing her first election since taking office in January.<\/p>\n

Ballot items include Proposition BB, a surplus marijuana tax issue; Referendum 4A, a Dolores Water Conservancy District mill levy freeze; and Referendum 5A, a Southwest Memorial Hospital sales tax proposal. Residents living within Montezuma Cortez Re-1 School District boundaries are also selecting board representatives.<\/p>\n

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