{"id":375810,"date":"2022-09-13T06:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=375810"},"modified":"2022-09-13T06:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:01:55","slug":"record-19272-registered-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/record-19272-registered-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Record 19,272 registered voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_375654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375654\" style=\"width: 1779px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CEC-pix-Sablan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-375654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CEC-pix-Sablan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1779\" height=\"922\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-375654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin N. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of yesterday, there was an overall total of 19,272 voters in the CNMI, assuring this Nov. 8 general elections will have the highest number of registered voters in the Commonwealth\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Election Commission acting executive director Robin N. Sablan disclosed yesterday that 176 registered to vote Friday, which was the deadline to register.<\/p>\n<p>This brings to a total of 19,272 registered voters for this year\u2019s election, surpassing the 18,914 that was recorded during the 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said during the 2020 general elections, there were 18,537 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>CEC\u2019s record shows that on Saipan, Precinct 1 still has the biggest number of registered voters with 5,153.<\/p>\n<p>Precinct 1 covers San Antonio, San Vicente, Dandan, parts of Finasisu, Koblerville, as Lito, parts of As Perdido, Chalan Piao, Afetnas, and As Gonno.<\/p>\n<p>Precinct 3 has 4,087 registered voters, Precinct 5 has 2,975, Precinct 4 has 1,752, and Precinct 2 has 1,590.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Islands has 184 registered voters. Precinct 7 or Rota\u00a0 has 1,851 registered voters, while Precinct 6 or Tinian has 1,680.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CEC has started accepting requests for absentee ballots since last Aug. 25. The deadline for application for absentee voting by electronic\/mail is Oct. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of yesterday, there was an overall total of 19,272 voters in the CNMI, assuring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":375654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375810","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=375810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}