{"id":377032,"date":"2022-10-04T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=377032"},"modified":"2022-10-04T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:02:02","slug":"65-already-voted-for-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/65-already-voted-for-ni\/","title":{"rendered":"65% already voted for NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_377033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377033\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CEC-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-377033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CEC-pix-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-377033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commonwealth Election Commission executive director Kayla S. Igitol, left, supervises the early voting process for the Northern Islands at the CEC office in Susupe in this photo taken at the start of the early voting last Sept. 23. As of yesterday, 65% of NI voters already voted. (FERDIE DE LA TORRE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With 34 more days for Northern Islands voters to avail of early voting, 128 out of 196 registered NI voters\u2014or 65%\u2014had already voted, according to Commonwealth Election Commission executive director Kayla S. Igitol yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Saipan Tribune\u2019s inquiries about the ongoing NI early voting, Igitol said 65% with 34 more days to vote, is a good turnout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I am hopeful they\u2019ll all vote before Nov. 7,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said 117 voted at CEC in Susupe, while 11 are absentee voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been slow this past week. We get one or two voters or none at all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>CEC started the NI early voting last Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said of the 196 registered NI voters, nine are currently staying in Alamagan and Agrihan.<\/p>\n<p>Most NI voters are staying on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said Nov. 4 is the target date for the boat to leave Saipan to get the votes of nine voters in Alamagan and Agrihan.<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 8 is the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Jocelyn Frances Aldan Kapileo is running for mayor as an independent, while Valentino Nicky Taisacan is seeking the post under the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 34 more days for Northern Islands voters to avail of early voting, 128 out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":377033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1266],"class_list":["post-377032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-ni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377032","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=377032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}