Early, absentee voting counts down from 2020

Early voting and absentee ballot returns from early Friday are not at the point they were in the 2020 Presidential Primary in Curry and Roosevelt counties.

Curry County early voting totals as of Thursday according to County Clerk Annie Hogland are 741 early voting ballots and 235 returned absentee ballots.

Of the 976 ballots cast in early and absentee voting in Curry County 724 are from Republicans, 248 from Democrats.

Four Libertarian ballots were received.

Hogland reports in the 2020 Presidential Primary, Curry County had a total of 1,143 ballots cast during early voting and 2,924 returned absentee by mail ballots.

Roosevelt County Clerk Mandi Park Friday morning said 518 early voting ballots had been cast in her courthouse office, 89 at the Jake Lopez alternate voting site and 81 absentee ballots returned for a total of 688.

Park said in a phone conversation she did not have the total broken down into Democrat, Libertarian and Republican categories.

Park also sent an email with details of the early/absentee voting in this primary and in the 2020 Presidential Primary.

Park wrote, “You also have to remember we were in the middle of COVID and there was a fear that polling places would be shut down by the public health order, fueling an urgency for early and absentee voting in the 2020 primary.”

At the end of early voting in the 2020 Presidential Primary Park wrote Roosevelt County “had 555 ballots cast in person in our office,126 at the alternate site and 1331 returned by mail, totaling 2012 votes cast prior to primary election day 2020.”

Some sections of Tuesday’s ballots are the same in Curry and Roosevelt counties.

Democrats will have a choice between incumbent Joe Biden and challenger Marianne Williamson.

Libertarians may vote for Presidential candidate Lars Mapstead.

Republicans will have a choice between Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswami.

Democrats will be voting on Martin Heinrich for New Mexico Senator and Teresa Ledger Fernandez for District 3 Congressional Representative.

Republicans will be voting on Nella Domenici for New Mexico Senator and Sharon Clahchischilliage for District 3 Congressional Representative.

Curry County Democrats have only one local primary race to vote on, that is for County Assessor where Sam Kelley is running unopposed.

Some Curry County Republicans will be voting in an uncontested race for a State Senator.

Pat Woods is running unopposed for the District 7 Senator seat.

Some Curry County Republicans will be voting in the three-way race for State Senator for District 27 where Greg Nibert, Larry Marker and Pat Boone are vying for the spot on the November election ballot.

Curry County has territory in three different state legislative districts.

Depending on their precincts, Republicans will be voting on District 63’s Martin Zamora, District 64’s Andrea Reeb and District 67’s Jack Chatfield.

In the local races on the Republican primary ballot only one is contested, Curry County Commission District 4 where incumbent Seth Martin is being challenged by Jamie Widner.

Roosevelt County Democrats have only one local race to vote on Tuesday, that for County Assessor with Victoria Ramos running.

All of Roosevelt County is in state senate District 27. Roosevelt County Republicans will be voting in the three-way race for State Senator for District 27 where Greg Nibert, Larry Marker and Pat Boone are vying for the spot on the November election ballot.

Roosevelt County Republicans in County Commission District 2 have four candidates to choose from in Tuesday’s primary: James Hamilton, Jarryd Burns, Malin Parker and August Cooper.

Saturday was the final day of early voting. There is no voting today or Monday.

Curry County Clerk Annie Hogland reminded voters Thursday ballots are specific to the voter’s precinct.

For a Primary election, ballots are also specific to the voter’s major political party affiliation.

The Curry County polling places for Tuesday’s election are different from March voting in Clovis, an election that was run by the city clerk.

Tuesday’s balloting will be run by the Curry County Clerk’s office.

Tuesday’s Curry County polling places are:

• La Casa Senior Center - 1120 Cameo St, Clovis.

• Curry County Admin Complex - 417 Gidding St, Clovis.

• Clovis Community College - 417 Schepps Blvd, Clovis.

• North Plains Mall (Suite 1184) - 2809 N Prince St, Clovis.

• Farmers Electric Cooperative - 3701 N Thornton St, Clovis.

• Countyline Fire Department - 1006 CR 6, Clovis.

• Pleasant Hill Fire Department - 304 SR 77, Texico.

• Texico Community Building - 215 N Griffin, Texico, NM

• Grady Senior Center - 104 W Main, Grady.

• Melrose City Hall - 105 E Avenue B, Melrose.

Polling in Roosevelt County is being done at these locations:

• The Jake Lopez Building at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds.

• The Memorial Building, 200 E. Seventh St.

• The Dora Senior Center in Dora.

• The Community Center in Elida.

• The Community Center in Floyd.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.