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Candidates appear before CEC for raffling of their slots
Maria Lourdes Ada, middle, and Janice Tenorio shake hands as they pick raffle numbers for their slots in the ballots for the Nov. 8 general election from Commonwealth Election Commission acting executive director Julita A. Villagomez at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe yesterday. Ada and Tenorio filed their candidacies for two Saipan Board of Education positions. Andrew Lujan Orsini and James M. Rayphand are the other candidates for the BOE Saipan seats. (Ferdie de la Torre)
Candidates for the Nov. 8 general election appeared yesterday before the Commonwealth Election Commission staff for the raffling of their slots in the ballots.
For Saipan, candidates for the Senate, House of Representatives, municipal council, and the Board of Education, participated in the raffle for slots held at the Pedro Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe from 9 to 10am.
Some candidates who did not make it to the drawing, sent their representatives. CEC staff, led by acting executive director Julita A. Villagomez, also picked up the numbers for those who had no representatives.
For Tinian and Rota, candidates picked up their numbers before CEC staff and commissioners at the Gaming Commission’s Office and Mayor’s Office respectively.
“It ran very smooth. It’s good,” CEC chair Frances Sablan in an interview at the multi-purpose center.
Sablan said they were just basically pulling the candidates’ positions for slots in the ballots.
Sablan said they will be certifying the candidacies tomorrow, Wednesday, at the commissioners’ meeting at the multi-purpose center.
At the same time, the chair said, they will also be passing the layout of the ballots.
CEC yesterday also reminded the public that they will open, from 8am to 4pm, on Saturdays starting Aug. 20 for registration of voters.
The deadline is Sept. 9.
CEC will also entertain change of names and transfer to different precincts.
Voters are required to bring birth certificate or valid U.S. passport.
A total of 66 individuals are running for 36 seats out for grabs at the Nov. 8 election.
U.S. Delegate Gregorio “Kilili” Camacho Sablan (Ind-MP), who is seeking his fifth term in U.S. Congress, is running unopposed. First elected in 2008, Sablan became the first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the CNMI.
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho will also be in the ballot for his retention election on the bench.
