{"id":371418,"date":"2022-06-29T06:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=371418"},"modified":"2022-06-29T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:06:37","slug":"cec-to-discuss-mail-registration-election-of-officers-at-its-first-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-to-discuss-mail-registration-election-of-officers-at-its-first-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC to discuss mail registration, election of officers at its first board meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_371426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371426\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jesus-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-371426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jesus-I-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus I. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Commonwealth Election Commission board chair Jesus I. Sablan has called for the commission\u2019s first board meeting tomorrow, Thursday, to discuss mail registration, among other items on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The CEC commissioners are also expected to elect their officers at the board meeting, which will be held at 1:30pm at the CEC conference room in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>The CEC board last elected Sablan in August 2020 as chairman, a position that he has been holding since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Thursday\u2019s meeting agenda is CEC executive director Kayla Igitol\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the CEC will hold a voter registration drive on Tinian on July 6 and on Rota on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>CEC said the registration on Tinian will be at the Tinian Mayor\u2019s Office from 9:30am to 2pm. The registration on Rota will be at the Rota Mayor\u2019s Office from 9:30am to 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Previously registered voters who have failed to vote in the 2018 and 2020 general elections must re-register to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 8, 2022 general election.<\/p>\n<p>First-time voters are required to provide a valid U.S. passport or birth certificate in order to register.<\/p>\n<p>The CEC just completed its last registration drive for the month of June on Saipan last Saturday at the San Vicente Youth Center. The CEC was able to register a total of 44, including 23 at San Vicente Youth Center, for the four Saturday drives.<\/p>\n<p>CEC held similar registration drives on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota from February to May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 9 is the last day for registration for this November election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Election Commission board chair Jesus I. Sablan has called for the commission\u2019s first board&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":371424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732],"class_list":["post-371418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371418","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=371418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}