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"Voters who wish to avoid the lines for the June 7 New Mexico primary have one more week to cast ballots early.Nineteen early-voting locations are open in Bernalillo County and will allow advance participation in the election through June 4. The County Clerk's Office said it wants to make finding a polling place as simple as possible.\"We're doing all we can to make voting easier and more convenient for people,\" Deputy County Clerk Roman Montoya said.It started with allowing people to visit any voting location in the county. Now they've launched a website with enhanced mobile features when viewed on a smartphone or tablet.The county calls it the My Voter Information program, MVI for short.Registered voters can enter their name and birth dates at bernco.gov/mvi to find personalized information, such as their individual ballot, and a list of all the early-voting locations.The web-based application will sort the polling places by distance from the phone or tablet, provide a picture of the front of the polling place and offer details about parking.\"It lets people know from the palm of their hand, from their phone, where the nearest location is to where their sitting, directions to there, the lowest amount of wait time they're going to have,\" Montoya said.There is also a link to load each location on Google Maps \"in case you don't know where the location is and you want to find out how to get there from where you're at,\" Montoya said.Another new creation this election season is Voter Express Check-In. Bernalillo County assigned each registered voter with a unique bar code ID.People can access their bar codes on their phones, tablets and computers through the My Voter Information website. The county also mailed thousands of bar codes to registered voters.\"So when they go in to the polling place, our poll officials will be able to scan and bring up their record right away and shorten that processing time,\" County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said.Antje Sandoval and her husband brought their printed bar codes to the Daskalos Center on Menaul Saturday. They cast the early voting location's 211th and 212th ballots of the dayShe said the bar codes seem to be working well.\"It was really quick. It went a lot faster than I had ever done it before,\" Sandoval said.She said the county seems to be putting a lot effort into making things simple by creating the Voter Express Check-in bar codes as well as launching the My Voter Information service online.\"My husband and I decided to try it out today, and it went really quick and easy,\" she said.June 4 is the last day for early voting before the primary election. People who want to vote via an an absentee ballot have until June 3 to request an absentee ballot. Instructions are here: http://www.bernco.gov/clerk/absentee-voting.aspx.Early voting sites will be open Memorial Day. Most of the polling places are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.The primary election day is June 7. The 69 voting convenience centers in Bernalillo County will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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