district administrators. siderable effort in encouraging thegg supporters to register and vote. The High Commissioner first elections to Micronesia in Chapter 6 SUFFRAGE A Territory-wide suffrage act for all levels of government has yet to be enacted. Voting qualifications are prescribed separately by municipal charters, district legislature charters, and Secretariat 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 areeligible 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 by law. Participation in that election varied widely among districts. For example, the percentage of eligible electors voting ranged from a reported high of 98% in the Mariana Islands District to a low of 42% in Truk. To make the people aware of their right 26 issueg orders to outline the conduct of the the Congress 1965. The Congreg passed an act in 1966 providing fam. election of its members, which w, signed as Public Law No. 2-16 2 later incorporated into the Code of Trust Territory as Chapter 3A. Unda this law all eligible persons desiring tq vote must first register. A person mag register by executing an affidavit mm which he identifies his voting residencal and swears that he meets the qualift cations prescribed by law. Candidate for the House of Representatives ang the Senate may be nominated eitha by petition or political party. A elections of members of Congress amg’ by secret ballot, and Public Law Nog 2-16 provides for supervision of po ing places, complaints of irregularitie appeals from decisions of electiog§, officials, absentee recounts -of voting. ballots, ang Responsibility fog conducting the Congress elections % vested in the district administratong who are designated electiogg commissioners for their districts, ang in boards of election of the 21 electiogg F districts. Chapter 7 fl POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS Traditional cultural patterns most areas of the Territory placed § Part V—Political Advanceme! ~— -} and Development, and seven assistant to vote, the Government has disseng,, inated information on registratiogge, voting procedures, dates of electiongi,, etc., through radio broadcasts ang, meetings with local officials. Politicg}e. parties in the districts, as well as somgy; candidates, have also expended cog’, as, + 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 Administrator, a Special Assistant to the High Commissioner, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Resources aera experience in their fields. Micronesians