PevidatticsChis —s e experience in their fields. Micronesians who assume high-level administrative and professional duties are covered under the higher salary schedule established for professional and managerial employees. High-level appointments of Micronesians have included a District the High Commissioner, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Resources and Development, and seven assistant district administrators. a Chapter 6 SUFFRAGE A Territory-wide suffrage act for all levels of government has yet to be enacted. Voting qualifications are pre- scribed separately by municipal charters, district legislature charters, and Secretarial Order No. 2882, as amended. In general, electors must be Trust Territory citizens, 18 or older, and residents for specified lengths of time of the municipality or other election district where they vote. Discrimination in voting based on race, sex, language, or religion does not exist. Both men and women are eligible to be chosen for elective office in the Trust Territory. About 44,000 persons wereeligible to vote in the 1966 Congress of Micronesia elections if they registered and met other requirements prescribed to vote, the Government has disserr inated information on registratior voting procedures, dates of election: etc., through radic broadcasts an meetings with local officials. Politica parties in the districts, as well as som: candidates, have also expended con siderable effort in encouraging the: supporters to register and vote. The High Commissioner issuec orders to outline the conduct of the first elections to the Congress oi Micronesia in 1965. The Congres: passed an act in 1966 providing for election of its members, which was signed as Public Law No, 2-16 and later incorporated into the Code of the Trust Territory as Chapter 3A. Under this law all eligible persons desiring to vote must first register. A person may register by executing an affidavit in which he identifies his voting residence and swears that he meets the qualifications prescribed by law. Candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate may be nominated either by petition or political party. All elections of members of Congress are by secret ballot, and Public Law No. 2-16 provides for supervision of polling places, complaints ofirregularities, appeals from decisions of election officials, recounts of ballots, and absentee voting. Responsibility for conducting the Congress elections is vested in the district administrators, who are designated election commissioners for their districts, and in boards of election of the 21 election districts. Chapter 7 by law. Participation in that election varied widely among districts. For example, the percentage of eligible POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS high of 98% in the Mariana Islands District to a low of 42% in Truk. To make the people aware of their right Traditional cultural patterns in most areas of the Territory placed a electors voting ranged from a reported 26 Part V—Political Advancement * iy so awh e org Administrator, a Special Assistant to ghd.a Maca eee