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Voter registration starts for 2007 election
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Posted on Jan 03 2006
All eligible voters who failed to cast their ballot in the last election may start re-registering now.
Commonwealth Election Commission executive director Gregorio Sablan said yesterday that the agency had started to accept voter registration immediately after the Nov. 5, 2005 election.
There were 1,375 registered voters who failed to vote in the last election. This includes 375 absentee voters whose ballots were not received and counted by the Election Commission by Nov. 19, 2005. Those overseas voters are considered as having failed to vote.
A total of 15,113 voters registered to vote in the Nov. 5 election; 13,738 or 91 percent of them cast ballots.
According to Sablan, some voters have already re-registered to vote in the November 2007 midterm election.
A person is eligible to vote if he or she is 18 years of age or older on the date of the next election, is domiciled in the Commonwealth, has resided in the Commonwealth for 120 days before the day of the election, is not serving a sentence for a felony conviction, has not been declared by a court to be insane, and is either a citizen or national of the United States as defined in the CNMI Constitution.
Eligible voters may register-or re-register-to vote during normal business hours at the commission’s offices on Capitol Hill.
