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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senator Soliai Tuipine Fuimaono is sponsoring a bill seeking to amend election laws and create “separate election races” for Governor and Lt. Governor.
The bill was introduced yesterday in the Senate in its first reading.
According to the measure, 26 states have team...
![[from l-r] Faoa Aitofele Sunia (Election Office attorney); Chief Election Officer, Dr. Sialofi Uiagalelei; Attorney General, Mitzie Jessop Taase and counsel for the Legislature, Nathaniel Savali](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/election_0560.jpg?itok=bRIwUJ3C "Government officials appeared before the House Election Committee last Thursday to discuss a Senate bill to amend the election law. [from l-r] Faoa Aitofele Sunia (Election Office attorney); Chief Election Officer, Dr. Sialofi Uiagalelei; Attorney General, Mitzie Jessop Taase and counsel for the Legislature, Nathaniel Savali. [photo by AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After House amendments to the Senate bill allowing registered voters stranded off-island due to COVID-19 to cast ballots in the November 3rd election were announced in the Senate chamber yesterday morning — the Senate unanimously rejected the House amendments, meaning...