http://www.kuam.com/decision2004/ Election news, notes and candidate profiles from KUAM.COM, Guam's largest and most visited Web site The U.S. District Court held a scheduling hearing today for the litigants in the Citizens for Economic Diversity's lawsuit against the Guam Election Commission. Magistrate Judge Joaquin Manibusan set oral arguments on two motions in the case for February 18. One of the major disputes, which will get a hearing on that date, is who represents the defendant in this case. http://www.kuam.com/news/12314.aspx Ken Wetmore 1/24/2005 The Decision 2004 General Election results for the Guam Education Policy Board may be finalized Friday. Guam Election Commission executive director Gerry Taitano says the agency's board of directors is tentatively scheduled to meet at 4:30 Friday afternoon to certify the write-in candidates in the GEPB race. http://www.kuam.com/news/11739.aspx Ken Wetmore 12/1/2004 As promised, the special interest group The Citizens for Economic Diversity is suing to throw out the Proposal "A" results from the Decision 2004 General Election and to force the Government of Guam to hold a special election on the issue of legalizing casino gaming in the territory. CFED spokesperson Jay Merrill filed the class action lawsuit yesterday, requesting a declaratory judgment on the legality of the results of the November 2 election. http://www.kuam.com/news/11665.aspx Ken Wetmore 11/24/2004 We previously reported several Decision 2004 mayoral, vice-mayoral, and senatorial candidates have failed to file financial disclosure forms with the Guam Election Commission by Monday's 5pm deadline. As it turns out, the Citizens for Economic Diversity has also not turned in a financial disclosure report, although there appears to be confusion on when (or even if) CFED must turn in the report. http://www.kuam.com/news/11659.aspx Ken Wetmore 11/24/2004 If you were wondering whom some of the major contributors to the special interest group the Communities Opposing Proposal "A" were, here are some of the larger donors COPA reported in their recent financial disclosure filing with the Guam Election Commission. The largest cash donor at $25,000 was Duty Free Shoppers. http://www.kuam.com/news/11658.aspx Ken Wetmore 11/24/2004 5pm Monday was the deadline for Decision 2004 General Election candidates to turn in their financial disclosure forms. The paperwork provides the Guam Election Commission information about who contributed to candidates campaign, how much was donated, and how the money was spent. http://www.kuam.com/news/11646.aspx Ken Wetmore 11/23/2004 It's been just over two weeks since Guam's General Election, and Decision 2004 hasn’t exactly been completely decisive. However, just after 8pm Wednesday the Guam Election Commission said they think they have a winner. http://www.kuam.com/news/11581.aspx Andi Atteberry 11/17/2004 Recount 2004 is over halfway done, with only precincts from the villages of Yigo and Dededo remain to be counted. Late this afternoon the Guam Election Commission finished recounting the votes from the village of Tamuning's precincts. http://www.kuam.com/news/11551.aspx Ken Wetmore 11/15/2004 There is still no change in the number of votes between Senator Joanne Brown and Speaker Ben Pangelinan. The former was still ahead by at least 14 votes over the latter, and Guam Election Commission executive director Gerry Taitano tells KUAM News, his staff, his agency's board of directors members and representatives from the Republican and Democrat parties finished the recounting of Barrigada and Mangilao yesterday. http://www.kuam.com/news/11528.aspx Zita Taitano 11/14/2004 The Guam Election Commission projects at least another week of recounting close to 30,000 ballots from the Decision 2004 General Election. This morning GEC executive director Gerry Taitano says members of the GEC Board of Directors and staff from the agency, along with representatives from Guam's Republican and Democrat parties completed the recount of the tri-village area of Mongmong-Toto-Maite. http://www.kuam.com/news/11525.aspx Zita Taitano 11/13/2004