{"id":234458,"date":"2016-08-17T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=234458"},"modified":"2016-08-17T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:06:24","slug":"likely-no-changes-designated-polling-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/likely-no-changes-designated-polling-places\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Likely no changes for designated polling places\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234460\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sablan-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-234460\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sablan-pix-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Candidates for House of Representatives and Senate for the upcoming general election in Nov. 8 pose for a photo at the Commonwealth Election Commission at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-234460\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates for House of Representatives and Senate for the upcoming general election in Nov. 8 pose for a photo at the Commonwealth Election Commission at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The designated polling places for the Nov. 8 general election will likely be the same from the 2014 election, according to Commonwealth Election Commission chair Frances Sablan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are anticipating the same,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>The CEC chair said she has not consulted with CEC acting executive director Julita A. Villagomez as to where the polling places will be.<\/p>\n<p>That matter, Sablan said, is included in the agenda at their meeting with CEC commissioners today, Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez earlier told Saipan Tribune that there will likely be no changes on the designated polling places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only time we change it is we find the places inconvenient to the people,\u201d Villagomez pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said this November will be the third election that no changes have been taken on the designated polling places.<\/p>\n<p>For Precinct I-A the polling place is Hopwood Junior High School; Dandan Middle School is for Precinct I-B; and Koblerville Youth Center for Precinct I-C.<\/p>\n<p>For Precinct 2, Joeten Kiyu Library is the polling place. <\/p>\n<p>Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium is for Precinct 3A and Garapan Elementary School for Precinct 3-B.<\/p>\n<p>Tanapag Elementary School is for Precinct 4-A; Gregorio Camacho Elementary School for Precinct 4-B; Jesus Mafnas Legislature Building for Precinct 4-C; and Northern Islands for Precinct 4-D.<\/p>\n<p>Kagman Elementary School will be the polling place for Precinct 5, while Tinian Elementary School is for Precinct 6 and Rota Northern Marianas College is for Precinct 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The designated polling places for the Nov. 8 general election will likely be the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":234460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732,242,1412,5676],"class_list":["post-234458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-kagman-elementary-school","tag-tanapag-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234458","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}