{"id":282446,"date":"2018-08-17T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=282446"},"modified":"2018-08-17T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:06:15","slug":"cec-to-print-22000-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-to-print-22000-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC to print 22,000 ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_282503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282503\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kayla-Igitol-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Kayla-Igitol-mug-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-282503\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-282503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayla Igitol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission estimates it will print 22,000 ballots for this Nov. 6 general election, according to CEC administrative officer Kayla Igitol yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, there were 18,229 registered voters, which is the all-time high record, Igitol said.<\/p>\n<p>She doubts, however, that they are going to reach 19,000 registered voters by the Sept. 7 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol, however, stated that they are not going to wait for the Sept. 7 deadline to order the printing of ballots, which will be done by a company in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>To come up with the number of ballots to be printed, the commission usually doubles 20 percent of the number of registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>By next week, Aug. 23, the commission will start mailing out the forms for absentee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The forms will be available at CEC office in Susupe or at CEC\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 12 is the deadline for application for absentee voting by email or regular mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission estimates it will print 22,000 ballots for this Nov. 6 general&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":282503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[732,14028],"class_list":["post-282446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cec","tag-kayla-igitol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282446","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=282446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}