Candidate: Non-Voting Delegate
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Qualifications
a. Must be at least twenty-five (25) years of age on the date of the election;

b. Must have been a citizen of the United States of America for at least seven (7) years;

c. Must be an inhabitant of Guam;

d. Must not be, on the date of the election, a candidate for any other office; and

e. Pursuant to P.L. 26-171, must not have been convicted of a felony, and must not have been convicted of a misdemeanor involving criminal sexual conduct or crime of moral turpitude.


Salary
One Hundred Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($125,000) annually.
 
Term of Office
Two years. The term of the Delegate shall commence on the third day of January following the date of the election (January 3, 2006).
 
How Elected
The Delegate shall be elected by the people qualified to vote for the members of the Legislature of Guam, and shall be voted at large by separate ballot by a majority of the votes cast for the Office of Delegate. If no candidate receives a majority, on the fourteenth day following such election, a runoff election shall be held between the candidates receiving the highest and second highest number of votes for the Office of Delegate.
 
 
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