{"id":238906,"date":"2016-10-21T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=238906"},"modified":"2016-10-21T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:06:27","slug":"cec-starts-sending-1561-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-starts-sending-1561-absentee-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC starts sending out 1,561 absentee ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission started yesterday mailing the 1,561 absentee ballots, including 14 to the Philippines and other jurisdictions. <\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Julita A. Villagomez disclosed that one absentee voter picked up the ballot from their office in Susupe on Wednesday while two others got their absentee ballots yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves 1,561 absentee ballots for mailing to Guam, the U.S. mainland, and other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>She said most of the 14 absentee voters from other jurisdictions are from the Philippines, and the rest are from Japan, Pohnpei, Canada, and Palau.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to 85 voters who are considered \u201cnonresident voters\u201d or \u201cdual voters,\u201d they have to call CEC at (670) 235-8680\/3 on Oct. 31 to know their schedule about their hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A CEC administrative officer will conduct a voter removal hearings and voter challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said the 85 \u201cdual voters\u201d will get letters from CEC about their situation and instructions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission started yesterday mailing the 1,561 absentee ballots, including 14 to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[634,732,170,63],"class_list":["post-238906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-canada","tag-cec","tag-japan","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238906","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=238906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}