Guam § 7118 - General Election Ballot Review.

§ 7118. General Election Ballot Review.

(a) The Guam Election Commission shall conduct a review of all

absentee ballots received, and all provisional ballots for the 2010 General

Election, within forty-five (45) days of the enactment of this Act. In

conducting this review the Commission shall:

(1) Determine which provisional ballots were not accepted in the

2010 election because the voter was not on the registration rolls, but

should have been counted because the voter was purged from the rolls

without due process as required by statute, and then conduct a count of

the votes cast if those ballots had been accepted.

(2) Count the votes cast in all absentee ballots received by the

Guam Election Commission for local elections that were received in the

same manner and timeframe as applied to federal elections in

accordance with 42 U.S.C. §§ 19673ff-1(a)(8).

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(3) Determine the impact of the results on the counts of

provisional and absentee ballots required by this Section on all 2010

election races for all offices, including a determination as to whether

any candidate meets the “50% plus 1” requirement stipulated in the

Organic Act of Guam.

(b) Inasmuch as the Guam Election Commission has recognized that

there were machine errors in the count of the 2010 General Election Results,

within thirty (30) days from the enactment of this Act, the Guam Election

Commission shall conduct an audit of all the results of the 2010 General

Election.

(c) All results obtained from audits of the 2010 General Election shall

be published on the Guam Election Commission website and distributed to

all island media outlets.