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Voter registration drive at Kagman high
The Commonwealth Election Commission will conduct a voter registration drive at the Kagman High School library in order to accommodate students who will be turning 18 years old before the Nov. 6 election.
CEC executive director Julita Villagomez said yesterday the voter registration drive will be from 11am to 3pm. It is being made at the request of a Kagman High School teacher.
The registration will also be open to the parents as well as other members of the community who want to register.
Villagomez said the registration will address the concerns that the CEC office in Susupe is far from Kagman and that most students have after-school programs.
“We’re promoting our registration to increase the number of registered voters,” she said, hinting that they are open to holding the same drive at other public and private high schools.
Villagomez asked the students and community to make sure to bring a copy of their birth certificate certified by the court, a valid U.S. passport, or naturalization documents to show proof of their citizenship.
CEC said a person is eligible to vote when he/she is 18 years old or older on Nov. 6, 2018, is domiciled in the CNMI, has resided in the CNMI for 120 days prior to the day of the election, is not serving a sentence for a felony conviction, has not been declared by a court to be judicially insane, and is either a citizen or national of the U.S, as defined in the NMI Constitution.
Previously registered voters who have failed to vote in the 2014 and 2016 general elections must re-register to be eligible to vote at the Nov. 6, 2018 election.
As of yesterday, she said, there are 16,696 registered voters in the CNMI, including 135 new ones this year.
