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Early unofficial returns indicate Albuquerque voters favor boosting the minimum wage by a nearly two-to-one margin, roughly in line with the results of a Journal poll last month.
The latest returns, which include early and absentee totals, are posted on the county website here.
Last I checked, the wage was ahead 66 percent to 34 percent, but the returns will be updated throughout the evening.
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Dan McKay covers City Hall and county government.
He joined the Albuquerque Journal in 2000 after spending his first year out of college at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, where he covered car wrecks and county politics.
In Albuquerque, he's reported on both feral cats and gross-receipts tax revenue bonds -- but not at the same time.
Dan is an Air Force brat. He graduated from the University of New Mexico.
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