{"id":16409,"date":"2017-02-02T21:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/?p=16409"},"modified":"2023-09-20T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:25:50","slug":"board-of-election-elects-chair-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/2017\/02\/02\/board-of-election-elects-chair-vice-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Election elects chair, vice chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY ARLYSSA BECENTI<\/strong><br \/>\nNAVAJO TIMES<\/p>\n<p><strong>WINDOW ROCK<\/strong> \u2014 The Navajo Nation Board of Election Supervisors has elected their new chair and vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Harrison, who represents the Fort Defiance Agency, was selected as the chair and Shirlee Bedonie, representative for the Western Agency, was selected as vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s board includes Bertha Aguirre and Melvin Harrison, Fort Defiance Agency; Watona Kellywood and Sam Ahkeah, Shiprock Agency; Ruth Gilmore and Shirlee A. Bedonie, Western Agency; Mae-Gilene Begay, Chinle Agency; and Leslie Chavez and Arlene Nakai Brown, Eastern Agency. There is a vacancy on the board for a member from Chinle Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The board supervises the Navajo Nation Election Administration, which is charged with making sure elections are carried out in an expedient and proper manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ARLYSSA BECENTI NAVAJO TIMES WINDOW ROCK \u2014 The Navajo Nation Board of Election Supervisors has elected their new chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16411,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409\/revisions\/16411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}