3 GCA § 12102
Causes for Contest
View official PDF ↗Any voter of Guam in a general election, or of a municipality or precinct in a municipal election, may contest any election held therein for any of the following causes:
(a)that the person who has been declared elected to an office other than as a Member of I Liheslaturan Guåhan (the Guam Legislature) was not, at the time of the election, eligible to that office;
(b)that the precinct board or any member thereof was guilty of misconduct;
(c)that the defendant has given to any elector or precinct board member of the election, any bribe or reward or has offered any bribe or reward for the purpose of procuring his or her election, or has committed any other offense against the elective franchise of Guam;
(d)that illegal votes were cast;
(e)that the precinct board, in conducting the election or in counting the ballots, made errors sufficient to change the results of the election as to any person who has been declared elected; or
(f)that the Election Commission, in conducting the election or in canvassing the ballots, made errors sufficient to change the results of the election as to any person who has been declared elected.
§ The story of this section
- Amended by P.L. 11-209 § 28 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 31-255 § 2 — introduced as Bill 413-31 · introduced by Dennis G. Rodriguez, Jr + 2 cosponsors
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2006 Guam 15 — Robert L.G. Benavente, Trini T. Torres, Frank Duenas Cruz, Peter Anthony San Nicolas, James Thomas McDonald, Petitioner (2006) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶21
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.