{"id":375579,"date":"2022-09-08T06:02:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=375579"},"modified":"2022-09-08T06:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:02:37","slug":"3-lawmakers-happy-with-cec-meeting-positive-about-fair-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-lawmakers-happy-with-cec-meeting-positive-about-fair-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"3 lawmakers happy with CEC meeting, positive about fair elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sens. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) and Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) and Rep. Denita K. Yangetmai (D-Saipan) pose outside the Commonwealth Election Commission office in Susupe yesterday morning shortly after they held a meeting with CEC and Office of the Attorney General regarding absentee voting, among other issues. (FERDIE DE LA TORRE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sens. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) and Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) and Rep. Denita Yangetmai (D-Saipan) met with the Commonwealth Election Commission and Office of the Attorney General yesterday morning to express, among other issues, their concern about the procedure in dealing with absentee requests.<\/p>\n

Manglona, DeLeon Guerrero, and Yangetmai had a meeting with CEC administrative officer Robin Sablan inside the CEC conference room in Susupe. Deputy attorney general Lillian A. Tenorio joined the meeting through Zoom as counsel for CEC.<\/p>\n

Manglona in an interview shortly after they got out from CEC office said they requested for a meeting with CEC to talk about the Nov. 8 general election, making sure that there will be a good and fair election.<\/p>\n

Manglona said they\u2019re happy so far with what they\u2019ve heard from their meeting with administrative officer Sablan and also with deputy AG Tenorio.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just concerned about the procedure. I asked about off island voters, how they\u2019re being processed as\u00a0 the absentee requests\u00a0 are submitted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Manglona said he wants to make sure that the absentee ballots are timely sent out to the voters in the U.S. mainland, all over Hawaii and Guam.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we want to make sure everybody gets the opportunity to vote because I think we know the importance of voting. You can make a difference. Everyone can make a difference. We ask everyone to come out and vote,\u201d Manglona said.<\/p>\n

He said CEC should look for red flags in the application for absentee voting, but then at least send the absentee ballots right away to them and don\u2019t delay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to hear the answers and hopefully we have a smooth election,\u201d Manglona said.<\/p>\n

The Rota senator said DeLeon Guerrero raised points about CEC programming issues, but CEC is aware and they\u2019re working on some of the issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so overall, I think we\u2019re positive for fair elections\u00a0 coming up\u00a0 as they continue to do, transparency processing,\u201d Manglona added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sens. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) and Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) and Rep. Denita Yangetmai…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":375580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732],"class_list":["post-375579","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\/375579","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=375579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}