3 GCA § 9124
Overseas Citizens
View official PDF ↗(a)Notwithstanding the provisions of § 9123 of this Chapter respecting residency, any citizen of the United States living outside of the United States shall be considered a resident of Guam and shall have the right to register according to the terms of this Chapter; provided, that:
(1)immediately before abandoning the Guam domicile, he or she would have met all qualifications, except for the qualification relating to minimum voting age;
(2)he or she has complied with all registration requirements;
(3)he or she does not maintain a domicile, is not registered to vote, and is not voting in any other U.S. jurisdiction; and
(4)the overseas registrant maintains the intent to return to Guam.
(b)A person loses his residency on Guam if he or she applies to register to vote or votes in an election held in another U.S. jurisdiction by absentee ballot or in person.
(c)No person who is registered to vote in another U.S. jurisdiction may vote in Guam until his or her name has been requested by the Commission to be removed from that jurisdiction’s election rolls. The Commission shall provide affidavit forms for the removal of names of voters from election rolls of other U.S. jurisdictions.
(d)The rules herein shall be clearly displayed on every application for an absentee ballot, and at every registration and voting site on Guam.
§ The story of this section
- Amended by P.L. 12-117 § 9 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 13-187 § 44 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 21-100 § 5 (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
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.