Polls for the 2022 mayoral and city council elections had disportionately long lines at Faith Baptist Church and no lines at the Artesia Senior Center the evening of the election. Long lines at the polls at Faith Baptist Church and no lines at the Senior Center meant that some Artesians waited in line for up to 35 minutes at the peak of the rush to the polls. Others simply walked into the doors of the Senior Center, picked up their ballot, filled it out, cast it into the counting machine, and returned to their vehicles without a long queue. 

 

Far fewer ballots were cast at the Senior Center than at Faith Baptist Church. The polling locations were advertised in the Focus NM Daily, the local newspaper, KSVP productions, various Facebook pages and groups, as well as in the Chamber of Commerce’s detailed Chamber Chat, a weekly listserv publication. By 7 pm just over 250 ballots were cast at the Senior Center as opposed to the many hundreds cast at Faith Baptist. 

 

Unofficial election results posted this morning, 3/2/2022 at 12:56 am, to the Secretary of State website are as follows:

 

District 1

 

Raul Roderiguez 202 votes     202 total

 

District 2

 

George Mullen 179 votes 

Jeremey Kern    70   votes      249 total

 

District 3

 

Kimberley Medley 91 votes

Tommy Bailes 45 votes

Wade Nelson 334 votes         470 total

 

District 4

 

Richard Townley 294 votes

Aubrey Hobson 75 votes       369 total

Mayoral

 

Luis Florez 287 votes

Allen K Bratcher 47 votes

Jonathon Henry 609 votes

Terry Hill 83 votes

Jeffery Youtsey 335 votes      1361 total