{"id":353506,"date":"2021-10-12T06:03:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=353506"},"modified":"2021-10-12T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:03:51","slug":"cec-good-turnout-at-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-good-turnout-at-early-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC: Good turnout at early voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353507\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-353507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Election-pix-1.jpg\" alt=\"Commonwealth Election Commission staff entertain a Precinct 3 voter last Saturday\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commonwealth Election Commission staff entertain a Precinct 3 voter last Saturday during the first day of the seven-day early voting for special election at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe. A total of 555 voted in the past three days. (FERDIE DE LA TORRE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A total of 555 individuals voted in the past three days of the seven-day early voting for the special election at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe. The Commonwealth Election Commission considers the number a good turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres also advised Friday all Precinct 3 voters to exercise their right to vote, saying this special election is just as important as every other election in the CNMI. \u201cI want to wish everyone luck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor urged voters to consider voting early throughout the week. Early voting for the special election started last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said if voters can\u2019t make it throughout the week of early voting, then they should exercise their right to vote on election day itself, Saturday, Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Kayla S. Igitol said yesterday that 211 voted on the first day of early voting, Saturday, and 111 on Sunday. Igitol said it was much better yesterday, a holiday, as 233 came in, bringing the total of voters these past three days to 555.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider that a good turnout, considering it\u2019s only been three days but we have four more days to go. So it should start picking up by then,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Corina L. Magofna of the NMI Democratic Party and Grace \u201cPitu\u201d Sablan Vaiagae of the NMI Republican Party are vying to fill the House of Representatives Precinct 3 seat left vacant by the sudden passing of representative Ivan A. Blanco last July 23.<\/p>\n<p>Vaiagae voted last Saturday. Magofna is going to vote this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Precinct 3 has 3,613 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>For the special election day this Saturday, the designated polling places are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Oleai Elementary School cafeteria for Precinct 3A (San Jose).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Garapan Elementary School cafeteria for Precincts 3B-1 (Garapan) and 3B-2 (Garapan).<\/p>\n<p>Voters must ensure that they bring with them a pictured identification card as they will be required to present it in order to be issued a ballot at the polling sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 555 individuals voted in the past three days of the seven-day early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":353508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353506","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=353506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}