New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran said the office is facing a $1.4 million budget shortfall because it did not request enough money from the 2011 legislature.

Duran said that's in part because this is the first time the state will ever implement voting convenience centers.

"The amount that we had initially requested from the legislature unfortunately for us was not a large enough amount," Duran told KFOX14 in a phone interview.

Duran said her office requested the money from the state board of finance Tuesday but was turned down.

The next step is to ask the legislature for the funds in January and if the legislature turns the office down, it's back to the state board of finance.

"I call it the vicious cycle," Duran said.

In the meantime, Duran said the election will go on and the state will pay vendors from the voting convenience centers once the state makes up the money.

"We have to go forward, especially at this late date," Duran said. "We are going to have to negotiate with vendors as far as the payments."

The state may be short on election cash but it's not the same for Dona Ana County.

"We're in good shape," Dona Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins said.

Ellins said that's in part thanks to the voting convenience centers.

"It means we have to hire far fewer poll workers than we have in the past because we have 39 locations instead of 120 precincts," Ellins said.