{"id":379871,"date":"2022-11-17T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=379871"},"modified":"2022-11-17T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:06:54","slug":"all-set-for-tomorrows-start-of-early-voting-for-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/all-set-for-tomorrows-start-of-early-voting-for-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"All set for tomorrow\u2019s start of early voting for runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_379872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-379872\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kayla-Igitol-mug-PW-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-379872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kayla-Igitol-mug-PW-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-379872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kayla S. Igitol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission is all set for tomorrow\u2019s start of the seven-day early voting for the runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Kayla S. Igitol also disclosed Tuesday that they had already printed 21,680 ballots from a local vendor for the Nov. 25 runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and his running mate, Sen. Sen. Vinnie Vinson F. Sablan (R-Saipan), of the Republican Party, will be squaring off at the runoff race with Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios and his running mate, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, of the unified independent team.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol said that early voting hours are from 8:30am to 4pm, all the way to Nov. 24.<\/p>\n<p>She said early voting on Saipan and the Northern Islands will be at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe. Early voting on Tinian and Rota will be at the Tinian Boating Safety and Rota Department of Public Safety, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Igitol urged CNMI voters to exercise their right to vote and let their voices heard.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to the 21,680 ballots printed locally, the executive director said it\u2019s the same number of ballots that they had ordered from Nebraska for the Nov. 8 general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s already printed. We have to be fast because we\u2019re going to mail it out,\u201d said Igitol, referring to absentee voting packages.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the need to charter a boat to get eights votes from the Northern Islands, Igitol said they are still working on it, but that they are not going to use the Department of Public Safety\u2019s vessel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking more of the people that I\u2019m going to send there,\u201d Igitol said. She did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>She said they have to be in the Northern Islands two days prior to the runoff election day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission is all set for tomorrow\u2019s start of the seven-day early voting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":379874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379871","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\/379871","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=379871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}