The Commonwealth Election Commission amended the early voting schedule and the designated polling places for this month\u2019s general elections during an emergency meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n
The CEC board already adopted the designated polling places in a meeting last Oct. 18, but was forced to amend this because of Super Typhoon Yutu, which devastated many schools.<\/p>\n
The general election was earlier set on Nov. 6; it has been moved to Nov. 13.<\/p>\n
CEC board chair pro tem Jesus I. Sablan and six other commissioners unanimously adopted yesterday the amended designated polling sites.<\/p>\n
Based on the changes, early voting for Saipan and Northern Islands, Tinian and Aguiguan, and Rota will now start today, Tuesday, and end on Nov. 12.<\/p>\n
The polling places for all senatorial districts will open at 8:30am and close at 4pm each day, inclusive of weekends and holidays.<\/p>\n
Early voting for the Northern Islands only, which started last Sept. 28 and will end on Nov. 12, is at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe.<\/p>\n
Early voting for Rota will be at the Rota-Northern Marianas College Room A-1, while the one on Tinian will be at the Tinian-Department of Public Safety\/Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services.<\/p>\n
Early voting on Saipan will be at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe.<\/p>\n
CEC executive director Julita A. Villagomez said that voters must bring with them an identification card with picture, which they must present in order to be issued a ballot at the polls.<\/p>\n
CEC administrative officer Kayla Igitol said the Nov. 13 general election will start at 7am and end at 7pm on the same day.<\/p>\n
Igitol said there are seven changes because either the designated polling place\u2014usually a school\u2014was severely damaged by Yutu or the cafeteria is being used as a shelter.<\/p>\n
The designated polling site for Precinct 1A or San Antonio area and Precinct 1C or Koblerville area are now both at the Koblerville Youth Center.<\/p>\n
Hopwood Junior High School in Chalan Piao used to be the polling place for San Antonio voters, but the school had extensive damage.<\/p>\n
She said Koblerville voters previously voted at Koblerville Elementary School, but the school is being used a shelter.<\/p>\n
Igitol said Precinct 3A or the Oleai\/San Jose voters used to vote at Oleai Elementary School, but due to the damage to the school, the Marianas Visitors Authority is now the designated polling place.<\/p>\n
Igitol said for Precinct 4A or the Tanapag area voters, the previous designated place was the Tanapag Middle School, but since the school is now being used as a shelter, the new polling site is the Tanapag Youth Center.<\/p>\n
For Precinct 5-1 and 5-2 or Kagman area voters, the Kagman Elementary School is currently a shelter and the new polling site is the Cha Cha Middle School cafeteria.<\/p>\n
On Rota, the new polling place is Rota-NMC room A-1 instead of room B-1. On Tinian, the new polling site is DPS\/DFEMS instead of the previous site, the Tinian Elementary School.<\/p>\n
The polling places for the Nov. 13 general election are as follows:<\/p>\n
-Precinct 1A (San Antonio area)\u2014Koblerville Youth Center<\/p>\n
-Precinct 1B-1 and IB-2 (San Vicente\/Dandan areas)\u2014Dandan Middle School cafeteria<\/p>\n
-Precinct 1C (Koberville area)\u2014Koblerville Youth Center<\/p>\n
-Precinct 2 (Chalan Kanoa\/Susupe areas\u2014Joeten Kiyu Public Library<\/p>\n
-Precinct 3A (San Jose\/Oleai area)\u2014MVA facility<\/p>\n
-Precinct 3B-1 and 3B-2 (Garapan area)\u2014Garapan Central Park<\/p>\n
-Precinct 4A (Tanapag area)\u2014Tanapag Youth Center<\/p>\n
-Precinct 4B (San Roque\/As Matuis areas)\u2014Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School cafeteria<\/p>\n
-Precinct 4C (Capital Hill area)\u2014Jesus P. Mafnas Legislative Building<\/p>\n
-Precinct 4D (Northern Islands)\u2014Alamagan, Pagan, and Agrigan<\/p>\n
-Precinct 5-1 and 5-2 (Kagman area)\u2014 Cha Cha Middle School cafeteria<\/p>\n
-Precinct 6 (Tinian and Aguiguan)\u2014Tinian DPS\/DFEMS<\/p>\n
-Precinct 7 (Rota)\u2014Rota-NMC room A-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Commonwealth Election Commission amended the early voting schedule and the designated polling places for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[732,6727,135,12174],"class_list":["post-288106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-cec","tag-koblerville-youth-center","tag-san-antonio","tag-tanapag-youth-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288106","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=288106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}