{"id":282095,"date":"2018-08-13T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=282095"},"modified":"2018-08-13T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:00:34","slug":"torres-palacios-gets-no-1-slot-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-palacios-gets-no-1-slot-on-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres-Palacios gets No. 1 slot on ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_282096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282096\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Slot-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\" class=\"size-full wp-image-282096\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-282096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The GOP bet of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and running mate, Senate president Arnold I. Palacios, got the No. 1 slot on the ballot at the Nov. 6 election.  <\/p>\n<p>Former governor Juan B. Babauta and his running mate, Dr. Rita A. Sablan, who are independent candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, will be the No. 2 on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>This came after the Commonwealth Election Commission held a drawing of slots for all candidates last Friday. The respective committee-to-elect chairpersons picked up the number for the governor and lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>CEC election register clerk Robin Sablan said for the delegate position, Delegate Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Ind-MP) will be No. 1 on the ballot, while Rep. Angel A. Demapan (R-Saipan) will be No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said the slot drawing is important so they can now order the printing of ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sablan said they will start receiving requests for absentee ballots on Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>He said Oct. 12 is the last day for application for absentee voting by electronic\/mail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP bet of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and running mate, Senate president Arnold I&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":282096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732,242,9962],"class_list":["post-282095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-robin-sablan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282095","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=282095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}