The Commonwealth Election Commission staff completed early yesterday morning packaging the 1,564 absentee ballots shortly after 21,400 ballots came in. <\/p>\n
CEC is expected to mail the absentee ballots either today, Thursday, or on Friday, according to CEC administrative officer Kayla S. Igitol. <\/p>\n
The Office of the Public Auditor has to examine the ballots before mailing them out.<\/p>\n
Of 1,564 absentee ballots, one such voter picked up the ballot at CEC yesterday, Saipan Tribune learned. <\/p>\n
Of 1,564 absentee voters, CEC has found 85 of them to be \u201cnonresident voters\u201d or \u201cdual voters.\u201d <\/p>\n
CEC, however, is still going to send ballots to those 85 because they don\u2019t want to take away their right to vote.<\/p>\n
A CEC administrative officer will conduct a voter removal hearings and voter challenges.<\/p>\n
After the ballots arrived at the CEC office in Susupe Tuesday at 11:30am, CEC later conducted an inventory of the ballots.<\/p>\n
CEC staff led by executive director Julita A. Villagomez then processed the absentee ballots until 2:30am yesterday. <\/p>\n
There are 17,936 registered ballots. CEC paid $27,000 to the Election Systems and Software from Nebraska for the cost of printing the ballots, site support, ballot layout, and ballot coding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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