{"id":38960,"date":"2022-08-11T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T02:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-will-hold-election-oct-14\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:47:20","slug":"ute-mountain-ute-tribe-will-hold-election-oct-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-will-hold-election-oct-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will hold election Oct. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad6d561a-397b-469c-bf2c-dcedb7042bc4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1477\" alt=\"Ute Mountain Ute election officials count ballots at a past election in Towaoc. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Ute Mountain Ute election officials count ballots at a past election in Towaoc. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will have an election Oct. 14 in Towaoc for tribal chairman and three Tribal Council seats, including the White Mesa seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Committee has packets for tribal members who want to run for the seats. Tribal council packets are $200, and the chairman packet is $300.<\/p>\n<p>The due date to turn in packets to the Election Department is Aug. 15 at 4:30 p.m., according to the Election Committee.<\/p>\n<p>A list of candidates will be announced and posted after the deadline and background checks.<\/p>\n<p>Terms are up for Chairman Manuel Heart, Vice Chairman Archie House Jr., Councilman Darwin Whiteman Jr. and Malcolm Lehi, representing White Mesa.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 640 tribal members are registered to vote, according to Ute Mountain Ute election officials.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on becoming a candidate, contact the Election Committee at (970) 565-3751 or email <a href=\"mailto:electionboard@utemountain.org\">electionboard@utemountain.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=238c71d7-82ef-47d7-9a46-584e0347357a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1135\" alt=\"During Ute Mountain Ute elections, the vote count is done in public at the Towaoc Community Center, and is overseen by the election board, election judges and security.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">During Ute Mountain Ute elections, the vote count is done in public at the Towaoc Community Center, and is overseen by the election board, election judges and security.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election includes contests for tribal chairman and three council seats; candidate packets due Aug. 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38961,"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-38960","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\/38960","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=38960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84185,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions\/84185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38960"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}