{"id":375896,"date":"2022-09-14T06:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=375896"},"modified":"2022-09-14T06:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:02:28","slug":"early-voting-for-northern-islands-to-start-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/early-voting-for-northern-islands-to-start-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting for Northern Islands to start next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_375654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375654\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CEC-pix-Sablan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-375654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CEC-pix-Sablan-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-375654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin N. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The early voting for the Northern Islands will start next week, according to Commonwealth Election Commission administrative officer Robin N. Sablan yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said early voting for the Northern Islands will start Friday, Sept. 23, from 8:30am to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are planning to have the voting place at the CEC conference room in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>CEC needs the ballots by Sept. 22. CEC has ordered 21,680 ballots from Nebraska-based Election Systems &amp; Software for the Nov. 8 general elections. There were a total of 19,272 registered voters in the CNMI as of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday, there were 184 registered voters for the Northern Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said five of those registered voters are currently staying on Agrihan as of last week according to the Northern Islands mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining NI registered voters are staying in Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Valentino Nicky Taisacan is running for Northern Islands mayor under the Republican Party, while Jocelyn Frances Aldan Kapileo is seeking the post as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Current Northern Islands mayor Vicente Santos is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 7 is the end of early voting for Northern Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early voting for the Northern Islands will start next week, according to Commonwealth Election&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":375654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[541],"class_list":["post-375896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-northern-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375896","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=375896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375896\/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=375896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}