Of this number, 86 are for Precinct 1; 23, Precinct 2; 60, Precinct 3; 39, Precinct 4; and 56, Precinct 5 for a total of 264 absentee votes for Saipan.
But not all absentee ballots are expected to be mailed back to the CEC, and some of them that will arrive here may be invalid ballots.
In the Saipan Senate race, the Democratic Party’s Edith Deleon Guerrero is ahead of Republican Sen. Sixto K. Igisomar by 245 votes based on the unofficial results tabulated on Nov. 3-4, 2020.
The unofficial election results also show that in Precinct 3, Republican Rep. Ralph N. Yumul, who finished sixth, is ahead of Democrat Corina Magofna by 35 votes only. Precinct 3 has six House seats.
Yumul garnered 1,230 votes while Magofna received 1,195 from the early voting, initial absentee ballot count and Election Day results.
In the 2016 elections, Yumul finished seventh behind Jose I. Itibus who had a 41-vote lead on election night. Yumul later received 47 absentee votes while Itibus garnered 45 to clinch victory with a total of 997 votes compared to Yumul’s 958.
For Tinian, there are 125 absentee ballots that may still arrive. In the island’s Senate race, Republican Karl King-Nabors is ahead by 208 votes, but House Republican candidate Patrick H. San Nicolas has an advantage of 46 votes only over his Democratic opponent Frederick Dela Cruz.
On Rota, independent Sen. Paul A. Manglona leads his Republican challenger Dennis C. Mendiola by 68 votes, but 215 absentee ballots may still arrive by Nov. 17.
In 2016, which was a three-way race, Manglona won the election after receiving 279 of the island’s 529 absentee votes.
