The Commonwealth Election Commission is targeting of printing about 4,000 ballots for the March 23, 2019 special election for the vacant seat of the House of Representatives for Precinct 3. <\/p>\n
CEC administrative officer Kayla S. Igitol also disclosed that votes for the special election will be manually counted.<\/p>\n
Igitol said the ballots will be printed locally and not from off-island that they did for last Nov. 13 general election. <\/p>\n
As of last week, there were 3,803 registered voters for Precinct 3. CEC closed the registration for Precinct 3 last Wednesday or the day when Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed the proclamation setting the March 23 special election.<\/p>\n
CEC also started last Wednesday accepting request for absentee ballots and also opened the submission for nominating petition and candidacy.<\/p>\n
Igitol said based on the last Nov. 13 election, there were 394 absentee ballots.<\/p>\n
She said for this special election, their projection is to have 350 absentee voters.<\/p>\n
The CEC board has yet to decide as to the designated polling place.<\/p>\n
The passing of representatuve Francisco S. Dela Cruz (R-Saipan) last Jan. 6, resulted in a vacant House seat. Dela Cruz won his re-election bid in the last Nov. 13 election, finishing fifth among 13 candidates. There are six seats for Precinct 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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