Members of the Absentee by Mail Precinct Board working this evening to qualify and process any ballots accepted at each of the Election Day Vote Centers today and given to the County Clerk. Photo by Bonnie Gordon/ladailypost.com
2022 Primary Election Night News:
In an effort to streamline the process, and with the recent spike in the COVID-19 public health crisis, County Clerk Naomi Maestas has made the decision to once again forego Election Night Reporting (in-person) at the Municipal Building, to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, as the Clerk’s office continue to do their part to battle this public health pandemic.
As done in the 2020 and 2021 Elections, rather than congregating and waiting for results tapes to be posted in the Municipal Building, the Clerk’s office will email candidates, local party chairs, media and other interested parties, a PDF document of the results, as they become available from each of the Vote Centers.
The PDF document will contain a running total of the sites being reported, which will be noted at the top of the document. The Clerk’s office anticipates having the ability to also send a separate report, specific to each Vote Center. Also, as required by law, results tapes will be posted outside each Vote Center for review, but those viewing the tapes are asked to please respect the current COVID Safe Practices set in place.
The Los Alamos Daily Post will report election results this evening at ladailypost.com.
The Clerk’s office also will simultaneously post results at www.losalamosnm.us/clerk. Once results have been emailed and posted to the website, they also will post this information to the Clerk’s office Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts (links to social media accounts available in email signature below).
As a reminder, voters were able to submit completed ballots to any Election Day polling place until 7 p.m., therefore, the Absentee by Mail Precinct Board is working well past 7 p.m., qualifying and processing any ballots accepted at each of the Election Day Vote Centers and given to the County Clerk. As of 6 p.m. today, there were 87 outstanding ballots to be returned to the Absentee Board.
Statewide results will be accessible on the New Mexico Secretary of State Election Results portal at: https://electionresults.sos.state.nm.us/Default.aspx?
