{"id":181429,"date":"2014-10-09T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=181429"},"modified":"2014-10-09T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:00:45","slug":"cec-need-id-absentee-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-need-id-absentee-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC: No need for ID in absentee ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has clarified that absentee voters do not need to attach a copy of picture identification, or ID, with their absentee ballot. The absentee packet introductory letter that was sent out with absentee ballots states that the absentee voter must submit a copy of picture identification when returning their ballot, but this was an inadvertent and incorrect statement. <\/p>\n<p>The commission will count absentee ballots that are received on time and that include the sealed ballot and the executed affidavit as required under 1 CMC Section 6212 and 6213.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions and\/or concern regarding absentee ballot process, do not hesitate to contact the Commonwealth Election Commission at (670)235-VOTE (8683). <em>(CEC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has clarified that absentee voters do not need to attach a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[242,308],"class_list":["post-181429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}