Section 5103, Title 4, Guam Code Annotated,
states that, “(a) An employee shall not use his official
authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with
or affecting the result of an election. (b) An employee shall
not participate in activity in connection with political
management of a political campaign, except as permitted by
Sec. 5102. Specific activities in which employees are prohibited
from participating include but are not limited to:
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- Serving as an officer of a political party, a
member of a committee of a political party, an officer
or member of a committee of a partisan political organization
or being a nominee for such positions;
- Organizing
or reorganizing a political party, partisan political
organization or committee thereof;
- Soliciting, collecting,
handling, disbursing or accounting for assessments,
contributions
or other funds for a political party, partisan
political organization
or candidate;
- Organizing, selling tickets to,
seeking support for or actively participating in
a fund-raising
activity of a political party, partisan political
organization
or candidate;
- Taking an active part in managing
the political campaign of a candidate;
- Being a candidate;
- Taking an active part in an organized
solicitation of votes in support of or in opposition
to a candidate, including distributing campaign
literature, badges
or buttons;
- Acting as recorder, watcher, challenger
or similar officer at the polls on behalf of
a political party, partisan political organization
or candidate;
- Driving voters to the polls on behalf
of a political party, partisan political organization
or candidate;
- Endorsing or opposing a candidate in
a political advertisement, a broadcast, campaign
literature, a letter or article in a newspaper
(signed or unsigned),
or similar material;
- Serving as a delegate, alternate
or proxy to a political party convention;
- Addressing
a convention caucus, rally or similar gathering of
a political
party in support of or in opposition to a candidate
or on a partisan political
questions;
- Initiating or circulating a nominating
petition for a candidate;
- Discharging, promoting,
demoting, or changing the compensation of any
other employee or promising or threatening to
do so, because said other employee
advocates or fails
to advocate through contribution, voting or other
wise, a candidate; and
- Using government travel
allowances, government transportation, government
supplies or government facilities for the benefit
of any political party,
partisan political
organization or candidate.”
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| Section 5106, Title 4, Guam Code Annotated,
states that, “No person, whether or not an employee,
shall solicit or receive a contribution or distribute literature
for any political purpose in any room or building occupied
in the discharge of official duties by any person employed
by the Executive, Legislative or Judicial Branches of the
Government of Guam. For purposes of this Section, soliciting
a contribution includes solicitation by letter or circular
addressed to and delivered to an employee in said room or
building. Any person who violated this Section is guilty
of a misdemeanor.”
Section 6104, Title 3, Guam Code Annotated, states that, “No
person shall sit in the Legislature of Guam nor be eligible
to be a candidate for election to that office who holds
an office, position or appointment in the Government of
Guam requiring the advise and consent to, or confirmation
of, the Legislature.”
Section 6107, Title 3, Guam Code Annotated, states that, “(a)
No person shall be eligible for more than one (1) office
to be filled in the same election, and may not file notice
of candidacy for more than one (1) office. The term “election” as
used in this Section includes a general and a local election
held on the same date so as to prohibit a person running
for office in a local election and in a general election
at the same time. (b) No person shall be eligible for an
office to be filled in an election if sixty (60) days prior
to the primary he is holding another elected office, the
term of which will not expire on or prior to the date of
commencement of the term of office for which he is running.”
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