{"id":239431,"date":"2016-10-31T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=239431"},"modified":"2016-10-31T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:06:06","slug":"early-voting-starts-nov-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/early-voting-starts-nov-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting starts Nov. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has announced the designated polling places for the start of early voting tomorrow in the CNMI. <\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Julita A. Villagomez said the early voting for Saipan, Tinian, and Rota will commence on Tuesday, Nov. 1, and end on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said polling places for all three senatorial districts will open at 8:30am and close at 4pm each day, including weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez earlier disclosed that all voters for the Northern Islands will also be casting their votes under the early voting system. <\/p>\n<p>There are only 160-some Northern Island voters. At present, there are no voters staying on the Northern Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said there are also no absentee voters from the Northern Islands. <\/p>\n<p>For Saipan voters, the polling place will be at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>For Tinian and Rota voters, the designated polling places are the islands\u2019 Department of Public Safety buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the CEC announced that the designated polling places for the Nov. 8 general election will open at 7am and close at 7pm that same day.<\/p>\n<p>The designated polling places are the following:<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 1A (San Antonio)\u2014Hopwood Junior High School<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 1B (San Vicente\/Dandan)\u2014Dandan Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 1C (Koblerville)\u2014Koblerville Youth Center<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 2 (Chalan Kanoa\/Susupe)\u2014Joeten Kiyu Public Library<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 3A (Oleai)\u2014Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 3B (Garapan)\u2014Garapan Elementary School cafeteria<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 4A (Tanapag)\u2014Tanapag Elem. School cafeteria<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 4B (San Roque\/As Matuis)\u2014Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 4C (Capital Hill)\u2014Jesus P. Mafnas Legislative Building<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 4D (Northern Islands)\u2014Northern Islands<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 5 (Kagman)\u2014Kagman Elementary School cafeteria<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 6 (Tinian)\u2014Tinian Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>-Precinct 7 (Rota)\u2014Northern Marianas College campus-Rota<\/p>\n<p>CEC administrative officer Kayla Igitol reminded voters to bring with them an identification card with picture as they will be required to present it in order to be issued a ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has announced the designated polling places for the start of early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[732,14028,14029,541],"class_list":["post-239431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-cec","tag-kayla-igitol","tag-mafnas-legislative-building","tag-northern-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239431","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=239431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}