{"id":86652,"date":"2025-12-13T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:18:07","slug":"vinton-mayoral-runoff-election-set-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86652\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinton mayoral runoff election set for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VINTON, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Eligible voters in the Village of Vinton will head to the polls Saturday to decide the town\u2019s next mayor in a runoff election after no candidate secured a majority in November.<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates participating in the runoff are Rachel Quintana and Juvencia Rios Ontiveros.<\/p>\n<p>Voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the El Paso County Northwest Annex (435 E. Vinton Rd).<\/p>\n<p>The runoff follows the November 2025 Uniform and Special Election, in which no mayoral candidate received more than 50% of the vote, triggering a head-to-head contest under Texas election law.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso County Elections Department encourages voters to prepare before arriving at the polls by reviewing information available at <a href=\"http:\/\/epcountyvotes.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">epcountyvotes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The website includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/epcountyvotes.com\/voter-information\/dashboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Voter Dashboard<\/a>, where voters can check registration status and eligibility, review voting history, and view or print a personalized sample ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Voters casting ballots in person must present <a href=\"https:\/\/epcountyvotes.com\/voter-information\/identification-required-for-voting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of seven acceptable forms of photo identification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who do not have and cannot reasonably obtain an approved photo ID may complete a Reasonable Impediment Declaration at the polling place and present a supporting document, as allowed by law.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who requested a ballot by mail but later choose to vote in person must surrender their mailed ballot at the voting site.<\/p>\n<p>If the ballot is not surrendered, the voter will be issued a provisional ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Voters concerned their mail ballot will not arrive in time may hand-deliver their ballot on Election Day between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Curbside ballot delivery is available on Kansas Street, on the west side of the Enrique Moreno County Courthouse (500 E. San Antonio Ave.) in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>An acceptable form of identification is required.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, voters may contact the El Paso County Elections Department at (915) 273-3597 or email epelections@epcounty.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VINTON, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Eligible voters in the Village of Vinton will head to the polls Saturday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-86652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}