{"id":288467,"date":"2018-11-13T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=288467"},"modified":"2018-11-13T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:06:58","slug":"palacios-pleased-with-early-voting-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palacios-pleased-with-early-voting-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios pleased with early voting turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate President Arnold I. Palacios (R-Saipan), left, listens as Commonwealth Elections Commission executive director Julita A. Villagomez gives some final instructions before he enters the polling place last Saturday at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senate President Arnold I. Palacios (R-Saipan) was impressed to see long lines of voters in the first five days of early voting at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center. He also chose to vote early last Saturday and was joined by his wife, Wella, and some members of the Palacios clan.<\/p>\n

Palacios, who is the running mate of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, said they expected to see a lot of people vote over the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) since there\u2019s no work. \u201cIt looks like [early voting is] going to be a huge turnout. A lot of people will come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to see more before the elections [Tuesday] since Monday is a holiday. People are still going to vote. I\u2019m not sure [Tuesday] is a holiday, unless people take an administrative leave,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

As of Saturday, a total of 4,757 voters had already cast their early votes, based on the numbers provided by CEC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who are probably at work would come out during their lunch break or would take an hour off. We want to make sure families come out and do this today (Saturday). Since we\u2019re going to be working Monday,\u201d said Palacios, who added that he would still need to check on some of their friends to make sure they vote.<\/p>\n

He said they expect that the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. would soon fix the power lines on Capital Hill, including the area near the Legislature and the Governor\u2019s Office. \u201cAccording to House Speaker [Rafael Demapan], we might get energized [Saturday] or [Sunday]. Some areas [on] Capital Hill already have power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to get a skeletal staff. Other than that, I think probably we could go back to normal. We\u2019ve got a plan to do something with the leadership this week; we\u2019ll check with the members to see if we can do it or after the election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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