Jose v. Mesa

OPINION

Appellant, a Guam citizen, brought this action against certain Guam election officials challenging the island’s primary system for the selection of party candidates for governor and lieutenant governor. Under a statute amended in 1974, § 2933(a) of the Government Code of Guam, a slate of candidates for the top two executive positions need only receive a plurality of the vote in the June primary to be nominated for the November general election. Appellant claims that this contravenes § 6 of *1049the Organic Act of Guam, 48 U.S.C. § 1422. Passed by Congress in 1968, § 6 for the first time…