{"id":51150,"date":"2020-10-06T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T04:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-election-is-friday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:54:51","slug":"ute-mountain-election-is-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-election-is-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ute Mountain election is Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d617933-0d0e-47c1-bf66-80cd6f9bf719&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1477\" alt=\"Ute Mountain election officials Annabelle Talk and Simone Ketchum announce votes while a security official looks on during the 2019 tribal council election.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Ute Mountain election officials Annabelle Talk and Simone Ketchum announce votes while a security official looks on during the 2019 tribal council election.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will hold an election on Oct. 9 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Community Center in Towaoc.<\/p>\n<p>Tribal members will choose a candidate for one open tribal council seat.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates are incumbent Lyndreth H. Wall, DeAnne House, Prisllena L. Nightstarr, Marissa K. Box and Shelley Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>Wall was elected in a special election in January to serve the remaining term of House, who gave up her seat to run for tribal council in October 2019. She lost to Manuel Heart.<\/p>\n<p>A valid Colorado ID or Tribal ID must be presented in order to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Only Ute Mountain Election Board members, security and media will be allowed in the Community Center during the counting of ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Before the coronavirus pandemic, dozens of tribal members attended the count. Each ballot was read aloud and verified by three election officials, then tallied on a board. Ballots were also shown on a screen, and the whole process was recorded on video.<\/p>\n<p>As a precaution against COVID-19, there will be temperature checks upon entrance of the Community Center, masks are required as well as social distancing of 6 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 640 Ute Mountain tribal members are registered voters, according to Ute Mountain election officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council includes Chairman Heart, Selwyn Whiteskunk, Alston Turtle, Archie House Jr., Darwin Whiteman Jr., Malcom Lehi representing White Mesa, and Wall.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>candidates vie for one open tribal council seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,308,29,144,547],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-local-elections","tag-newsletter","tag-towaoc","tag-ute-mountain-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150","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=51150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87909,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150\/revisions\/87909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51150"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}