{"id":283384,"date":"2018-08-30T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=283384"},"modified":"2018-08-30T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:06:09","slug":"cec-has-had-no-problems-with-5-tabulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-has-had-no-problems-with-5-tabulators\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC has had no problems with 5 tabulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has not had any problems with the five tabulating machines it purchased in 2003, according to CEC executive director Julita Villagomez. <\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said the machine, despite their age\u201415 years old\u2014are very accurate and fast. The equipment were purchased from Election Systems and Software in Nebraska. <\/p>\n<p>For this Nov. 6 general election, ESS will be sending technician to service the five counting machines, Villagomez said. The technician may arrive days close to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the technician will just clean the machines and change the rubber parts, she said.<\/p>\n<p>CEC has been using three machines for Saipan, and one machine each for Tinian and Rota.<\/p>\n<p>The machines are stored at CEC\u2019s office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission has not had any problems with the five tabulating machines it&#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":[732,13062,11078],"class_list":["post-283384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-ess","tag-julita-villagomez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283384","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=283384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}