{"id":378407,"date":"2022-10-26T06:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=378407"},"modified":"2022-10-26T06:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:06:40","slug":"1954-requested-for-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/1954-requested-for-absentee-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"1,954 requested for absentee ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_378408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378408\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kayla-Igitol27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-378408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kayla-Igitol27-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-378408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayla S. Igitol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of yesterday, 1,954 registered voters have requested for absentee ballots and those ballots were mailed to them, according to Commonwealth Election Commission executive director Kayla S. Igitol.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol also announced that the Northern Islands early voting will be relocated back to the CEC office this Friday, Oct. 28, due to a state funeral for a police officer that will take place at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Northern Islands early voting will resume at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center this Saturday, Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to absentee ballots, Igitol disclosed that some of the ballots have already arrived at the U.S. Postal Service office in Chalan Kanoa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t pick them up until election day [Nov. 8],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The executive director said their first pickup of the absentee ballot will be at 11am and the second is right before the post office closes.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Northern Islands early voting, Igitol said that, as of yesterday, 137 have already voted and that there are 59 who have yet to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re waiting for 59 more voters. It\u2019s very slow. We\u2019ll get one voter a day or no voter at all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>CEC started the Northern Islands early voting last Sept. 23. The last day of early voting is Nov. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of yesterday, 1,954 registered voters have requested for absentee ballots and those ballots were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":378410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378407","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=378407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}