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New website feels pulse of voters
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Posted on Sep 19 2005
With less than 50 days before election day, political parties and their candidates are revving up their campaign, and a new website has begun conducting an online poll soliciting unofficial votes for candidates in the Nov. 5, 2005 elections.
The website—www.cnmipolitics2005.org—allows voters to cast unofficial ballots online for all positions from governor, senators and congressmen, mayors and judges, among others.
It clarifies, though, that the Commonwealth Election Commission or any political party does not endorse the online poll.
Its home page carries a question: “Who has your vote for Governor of the CNMI?”
Poll participants have four answers to choose from—the tandems of incumbent Gov. Juan N. Babauta and Lt. Gov. Diego T. Benavente of the Republican Party, House Speaker Benigno Fitial and Vice Speaker Timothy Villagomez of the Covenant Party, former Gov. Froilan Tenorio and Antonio Santos of the Democratic Party, and House Rep. Heinz Hofschneider and David Apatang, who are running as independent candidates.
As of yesterday afternoon, the online gubernatorial poll had already garnered 682 votes.
Preliminary results showed the Babauta-Benavante team leading the race with 255 votes, which represents 37 percent of the total votes cast so far.
The Fitial-Villagomez tandem followed closely with 198 votes for a 29 percent share of total votes.
Tenorio and Santos garnered 156 votes—23 percent of the total votes—while the Hofschneider-Apatang team got 73 votes for a vote share of 11 percent.
