{"id":36890,"date":"2022-12-07T04:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-will-hold-special-election\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:34:29","slug":"ute-mountain-ute-tribe-will-hold-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-will-hold-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will hold special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b51f1227-7ef5-4b38-9e4f-ef4bc4fcbcad&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1107\" alt=\"The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe was awarded funding to upgrade internet service as part of the infrastructure bill recently passed by Congress and President Joe Biden. (Journal file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe was awarded funding to upgrade internet service as part of the infrastructure bill recently passed by Congress and President Joe Biden. (Journal file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will hold a special election Feb. 1 for one vacant tribal council seat.<\/p>\n<p>The seat became open after former councilman Selwyn Whiteskunk resigned to run for tribal chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates are Angelita Berry, Leland Collins Sr., Archie House Jr., Gina Lopez, Prisllena Nightstarr, Selwyn Whiteskunk and Davis Wing.<\/p>\n<p>The voting booths at the Community Center in Towaoc will be open 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to request an absentee ballot for all nonresident tribal members is Dec. 29 at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the Election Board during office hours to request an absentee ballot at (970) 564-5635.<\/p>\n<p>The election board office hours are: Monday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All enrolled members living off the reservation who would like to vote in the election must request an official notarized absentee ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 1 election is for one open tribal council seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,547],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-36890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-ute-mountain-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83490,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions\/83490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}