{"id":411810,"date":"2024-08-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=411810"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Early-voting-begins-for-Rota-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Early-voting-begins-for-Rota-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting begins for Rota special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early voting period for Rota\u2019s special election to fill the island\u2019s recently vacated spot on the Board of Education has officially begun and will end next week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Commonwealth Election Commission officially opened early voting for Rota\u2019s special election to fill the island\u2019s vacant seat on the board of education.<\/p>\n<p>The early voting period will last until Aug. 13, followed by the special election on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to inform all Precinct 7 voters that pursuant to 1 CMC \u00a76222 and \u00a76224, the 2024 Special Election Early Voting period for the 1st Senatorial District of Rota, will commence on Wednesday, Aug. 7, and end on Tuesday Aug. 13,\u201d said the CEC.<\/p>\n<p>The election district\u2019s early voting place will be at the Rota-DPS Command Building in Songsong Village.<\/p>\n<p>The polling place will open at 8:30am and close at 4pm each day, including weekends and holidays.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, pursuant to 1 CMC \u00a7 6105 \u00a9, the CEC announces the designated polling places for the upcoming Aug. 14, special Eeection will be at the Rota-NMC Room B-1 (main entrance).<\/p>\n<p>The polling place for the special election will open at 7am and close at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs mandated by 1 CMC \u00a76218, voters must ensure that they bring with them a pictured ID as they will be required to present it in order to be issued a ballot at the polls. For more information, please contact the Commonwealth Election Commission at 235-8683(VOTE),\u201d said CEC.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/7e647ae7146720c6e32f980bef142f6f.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>CEC logo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early voting period for Rota\u2019s special election to fill the island\u2019s recently vacated spot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411810","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}