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American
Samoa
Electoral law
unavailable for review
General Right to
Vote
Constitution:
(1967)
Article II, section 4 states, "
Representatives shall
be chosen by secret ballot of the qualified electors of their respective
representative districts."
Article II, section 7 states, "Every person of the age of
18 years or upwards who is a United States national and who has lived
in American Samoa for a total of at least two years and has been a bona
fide resident of the election district where he offers to vote for at
least one year next preceding the election and who meets such registration
requirements as may be prescribed by law shall be deemed a qualified elector
at such election
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Article IV, section 2 states, "The Governor and the Lieutenant
Governor of American Samoa shall, commencing with the first Tuesday following
the first Monday of November 1977, be popularly elected and serve in accordance
with the laws of American Samoa."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1967)
Article II, section 7 states, "
No person under guardianship,
non compos mentis, or insane shall be qualified to vote at any election
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