{"id":285634,"date":"2018-10-01T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=285634"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:06:15","slug":"early-voting-for-northern-islands-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/early-voting-for-northern-islands-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting for Northern Islands starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early voting for the Northern Islands for the Nov. 6 general election commenced at the Commonwealth Election Commission office on Tekken St. in Susupe last Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>CEC administrative officer Kayla Igitol said the early voting for Northern Islands registered voters extends through the last day before the election at 4pm. <\/p>\n<p>Igitol said the polling place for early voting remains open during the hours of 8:30am and 4pm on weekdays, weekends, Saturday, Sunday, and holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said anyone requiring other information may call their office at 235-8683 or by sending an electronic mail to administrative@votecnmi.gov.mp.<\/p>\n<p>There are 177 registered voters for the Northern Islands. CEC is reportedly preparing to spend $26,000 to $27,000 to charter a boat to deliver ballots for early voting for those currently staying on Pagan, Alamagan, and Agrihan.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the CEC\u2019s last report, there are 14 Northern Islands\u2019 voters who are currently on those three islands. <\/p>\n<p>The seven-day early voting for Saipan, Tinian, and Rota will commence Oct. 30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early voting for the Northern Islands for the Nov. 6 general election commenced at&#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":[732,242,541,22837],"class_list":["post-285634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-northern-islands","tag-tekken-st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285634","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=285634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}