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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2814 (Introduced in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for militar... · Sec. 1709

Sec. 1709. Requirement of plurality vote for Virgin Islands and Guam Federal elections

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Section 2(a) of the Act entitled An Act to provide that the unincorporated territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands shall each be represented in Congress by a Delegate to the House of Representatives approved April 10, 1972 ( 48 U.S.C. 1712(a) ), is amended— by striking majority in the second and third sentences and inserting plurality ; and by striking the fourth sentence.
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Requirement of plurality vote for Virgin Islands and Guam Federal elections
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