A bill has been introduced into the Guam Senate to provide that the territory should elect two U.S. Senators, starting in 2012. See this story. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for this news. The idea is somewhat similar to what is already done in the District of Columbia. The two individuals elected from the District of Columbia to the U.S. Senate are commonly referred to as “shadow Senators.”
Richard. Where would one go to find the election results of the “shadow Senators” elected from the District of Columbia? I’ve heard of this before, but I don’t recall ever seeing any news reports on the candidates and who gets elected.
The District of Columbia Board of Elections web page has the election returns for all partisan offices, including the shadow senators. They also elect a shadow member of the US House, which is a different office than the Delegate to the US House.
One DC shadow Senators is up in Class I years and the other is up in Class II years. Class I years are 2000, 2006, 2012, etc. Class II years are 1996, 2002, 2008, etc.
IN A MORE PERFECT WORLD
Pacific Islanders assigned voting addresses in Hawaii or Alaska ………
DC as a de federalized entity and then a county of Maryland ……….
Carribean entities assigned voting addresses in FLorida
Const. Amdt –
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A. — i.e. right to vote in the U.S.A. colonies.
[Failure of the Brits to have voting in the Brit-American colonies for MPs in the pre-1775 U.K. House of Commons — 4 July 1776]
P.R. and App.V.