{"id":283701,"date":"2018-09-04T06:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=283701"},"modified":"2018-09-04T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:05:48","slug":"cec-allocates-40k-to-pay-ballot-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-allocates-40k-to-pay-ballot-company\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC allocates $40K to pay ballot company"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_283702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283702\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CEC-machine-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CEC-machine-pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-283702\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this August 2016 file photo, Election Systems and Software senior field service technician William McCullough services one of five Commonwealth Election Commission counting machines at the Pedro Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission is paying a Nebraska company $40,000 in total for the printing of ballots as well as to service its five tabulating machines in the CNMI, according to CEC administrative officer Kayla Igitol.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said the payment for Election Systems and Software includes ballot coding, layout of ballots, printing of ballots, and shipping of ballots.<\/p>\n<p>She said ESS will also send a person to the CNMI to provide support and will stay during the tabulation of the ballots for the Nov. 6 election.<\/p>\n<p>As of last week, there were over 18,200 registered voters in the CNMI. CEC has estimated the need to print 22,000 ballots. <\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Julita Villagomez earlier stated that, days before the election, ESS will be sending a technician to service the counting machines.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said the technician will normally just clean the machines and change the rubber parts.<\/p>\n<p>CEC reportedly has not encountered problems with the five tabulating machines since they were purchased in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said the machines that were purchased from ESS are very accurate and fast in tabulating ballots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission is paying a Nebraska company $40,000 in total for the printing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":283702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732,26,13062,14028],"class_list":["post-283701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-cnmi","tag-ess","tag-kayla-igitol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283701","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=283701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}