What's on the Los Alamos County ballot

LOS ALAMOS - Los Alamos County voters will choose four County Council members from seven candidates on Nov. 3 and decide 10 ballot questions, including three proposed changes to the county charter, according to the county's official sample ballot and the Secretary of State's contest list for the county.

The ballot also includes races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor. Candidates are listed below as they appear on the official lists, with party: D for Democrat, R for Republican, L for Libertarian.

Federal and statewide

• - U.S. Senate: Ben R. Lujan (D), Larry E. Marker (R)
• - U.S. House, District 3: Teresa Leger Fernandez (D), Martin Zamora (R)
• - Governor and lieutenant governor: Greggory D. Hull and David M. Gallegos (R); Deb Haaland and Stephanie Garcia Richard (D)
• - Secretary of state: Amanda López Askin (D), Ramona L. Goolsby (R)
• - Attorney general: Raul Torrez (D), Samuel Isaiah Kane Sr. (R)
• - State auditor: Joshua James Ryan Lawrence (R), Joseph M. Maestas (D)
• - State treasurer: James F. Ellison (R), Laura M. Montoya (D)
• - Commissioner of public lands: Michael Jack Perry (R), Juan de Jesus Sanchez III (D)

Legislature and county

• - State House, District 43: Christine Chandler (D), unopposed
• - County Council, vote for up to four: Steven S. Lynne (D), Chris Luchini (L), Jason Alan Chappel (R), Theresa Ann Cull (D), David E. Hampton (D), Melanee M. Hand (D), Eric Roland Stromberg (R)
• - County assessor: James Curtis Wernicke Jr. (L), Jeff Casalina (D)
• - County sheriff: Antonio L. Maggiore (D), unopposed
• - Probate judge: Perry C. Klare (D), unopposed

Courts

• - Court of Appeals, Position 1: Kris Houghton (D), unopposed
• - First Judicial District Court, Division 4: Denise Marie Thomas (D), unopposed
• - First Judicial District Court, Division 8: Anastasia Rose Martin (D), unopposed
• - Magistrate judge: Catherine E. Taylor (D), unopposed
• - Municipal judge: Elizabeth K. Allen (D), unopposed
• - Retention, yes or no: Supreme Court Justices David K. Thomson and Shannon Bacon; Court of Appeals Judge J. Miles Hanisee; and District Judges Francis J. Mathew (Division 1), T. Glenn Ellington (Division 7) and Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood (Division 10)

Constitutional amendments

• - Amendment 1 would require the governor to explain every veto in a message, and would make bills the governor doesn't act on become law.
• - Amendment 2 would remove the requirement that school elections be held separately from partisan elections.
• - Amendment 3 would create nominating committees to give the governor lists of nominees for state university and college regents, with student regents picked from a list chosen by student government.
• - Amendment 4 would tie legislators' pay to New Mexico's median household income, with delayed implementation.

State bond questions

• - Bond Question 1: up to $21,582,213 for senior citizen facilities
• - Bond Question 2: up to $19,324,188 for academic, public school, public and tribal libraries
• - Bond Question 3: up to $352,225,379 for higher education, special schools and tribal schools

County charter questions

• - Question 1 (Ordinance 755) would let a person serve three terms in a row on the same standing board or commission, up from two.
• - Question 2 (Ordinance 757) would drop political party balance rules for standing boards and commissions, except the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Board of Public Utilities and the Personnel Board.
• - Question 3 (Ordinance 758) would remove the charter provision that sends all remaining Department of Public Utilities operating profits to the county's General Fund.

No state Senate or Public Education Commission race appears on the county's ballot this year, and the county clerk is not up for election.