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    "country": "FM",
    "country_name": "Federated States of Micronesia",
    "date": "2027-03-02",
    "date_status": "tentative",
    "kind": "legislative",
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    "timezone": "Pacific/Pohnpei",
    "status": "scheduled",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-25T12:00:00Z",
    "stale": false,
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    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: FSM Code Title 9 (2014 ed., fsmlaw.org) §§105, 605, 703, 711, 802; FSM Constitution arts. IX §§8, 12 and X §§1, 4 (fsmlaw.org); National Election Office fsmned.fm (homepage, past-results index, 2023 certification, 2021 certification memo, 2027 registration form); Congress of the FSM press releases (cfsm.gov.fm, 13 Mar 2013, 17 Mar 2021, 9 Mar 2023, 12 May 2025); FSM PIO (gov.fm, 11 May 2023; 21 Nov 2025)",
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        "key": "micronesia-legislative-2027/congress",
        "name": "Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia",
        "body": "legislature-unicameral",
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        "polls_close_utc": "2027-03-02T07:00:00Z",
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          "name": "Office of the National Election Director (FSM National Election Office)",
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          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://www.fsmned.fm/",
          "results_index": "https://www.fsmned.fm/past_elections.htm",
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          "from": "2027-03-06T13:00:00Z",
          "by": "2027-03-23T12:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "precedent",
          "basis": "Title 9 §711(1): the National Election Director certifies and declares the winners 'no later than three days after the unofficial election results of all four States have been received'. No fixed calendar date applies. §711(3): a district with an irregularity is certified later, and the other districts go ahead. Precedents: 2013 certified 13 Mar, day 8 (cfsm.gov.fm, 13 Mar 2013). 2023 certified 13 Mar, day 6 (Director Ausen T. Lambert's signed certification, fsmned.fm PDF). 2021 certified 19 Mar, day 17, per the Director's memo; Congress reported 17 Mar (cfsm.gov.fm). We found no official date for 2025. The window opens at the start of 7 Mar 2027 (day 5), an ESTIMATED floor, and closes at the end of 23 Mar 2027 Pohnpei time (day 21), four days past the slowest precedent. After certification, a candidate has one week to petition the Director for a recount or revote. The Director has 14 days to decide, and the FSM Supreme Court appellate division hears appeals (Title 9 §802; Nelson v. FSM Nat'l Election Dir., 16 FSM R. 414 (App. 2009)). No court must confirm the result."
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            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2027-03-02T07:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-03-12T12:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Polls close at 5:00 p.m. (Title 9 §703). The FSM spans two time zones, so polls close at 06:00 UTC in Pohnpei and Kosrae (UTC+11) and 07:00 UTC in Yap and Chuuk (UTC+10). Each State's counting and tabulating committee counts the ballots, including absentee ballots, and the national election commissioner sends the State's unofficial result to the Director. 2023 (vote 7 Mar): Congress published 'unofficial results of the National Elections on March 08, 2023' on 9 Mar (cfsm.gov.fm, 9 Mar 2023), day 1–2. 2021 (vote 2 Mar): Chuuk's report reached the Director only on 19 Mar, day 17, after a presidential decree extended the mail-in ballot deadline to 16 Mar (Director's memo, 19 Mar 2021; cfsm.gov.fm, 17 Mar 2021). The window runs to the end of 12 Mar 2027 Pohnpei time, day 10. Outer-island ballots and a late State can push it past that. These are unofficial state tallies with no live results page. They are not the certified result.",
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          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2027-03-06T13:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-03-23T12:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Title 9 §711(1): the National Election Director certifies and declares the winners 'no later than three days after the unofficial election results of all four States have been received'. No fixed calendar date applies. §711(3): a district with an irregularity is certified later, and the other districts go ahead. Precedents: 2013 certified 13 Mar, day 8 (cfsm.gov.fm, 13 Mar 2013). 2023 certified 13 Mar, day 6 (Director Ausen T. Lambert's signed certification, fsmned.fm PDF). 2021 certified 19 Mar, day 17, per the Director's memo; Congress reported 17 Mar (cfsm.gov.fm). We found no official date for 2025. The window opens at the start of 7 Mar 2027 (day 5), an ESTIMATED floor, and closes at the end of 23 Mar 2027 Pohnpei time (day 21), four days past the slowest precedent. After certification, a candidate has one week to petition the Director for a recount or revote. The Director has 14 days to decide, and the FSM Supreme Court appellate division hears appeals (Title 9 §802; Nelson v. FSM Nat'l Election Dir., 16 FSM R. 414 (App. 2009)). No court must confirm the result.",
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            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "government",
            "from": "2027-05-10T13:00:00Z",
            "by": null,
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Congress elects the President by a majority of all members (Constitution art. X §1), from among the members serving a 4-year term (art. X §4). The new Congress convened and swore in members on 11 May in 2021, 2023 and 2025 (cfsm.gov.fm, 17 Mar 2021, 9 Mar 2023, 12 May 2025). In 2023 it elected Wesley W. Simina President on 11 May (gov.fm, 11 May 2023), 65 days after the 7 Mar vote. The window opens at the start of 11 May 2027, Pohnpei time. We found no statute fixing 11 May, so the date rests on precedent.",
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            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.fsmned.fm/past_elections.htm",
            "role": "results-final",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "National Election Office 'Past Elections Results' index. It lists the Director's signed certifications as scanned PDFs, e.g. the March 7, 2023 general election at https://www.fsmned.fm/PDF/ElectionResults_372023General%20Election.PDF. This is an index, not a page for 2027. On 25 Sep 2026 it listed nothing after 2023 (no 2025 certification), and the office publishes no live results page or feed. The office also posts results on its Facebook page (FSMNED), which is not a stable source.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "http://fsmlaw.org/fsm/code/code2014/FSMCode2014Tit09Chap01.html",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "FSM Code (2014 ed.) Title 9, ch. 1, §105(1): general elections for Members 'shall be held biennially in each odd-numbered year on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in March'. For 2027 that is Tuesday 2 March 2027 (first Monday: 1 March). All 14 seats are up. The 10 district members serve 2 years (last elected 4 Mar 2025). The 4 at-large members, one per State, serve 4 years (last elected 7 Mar 2023) (Constitution art. IX §8). The Yap at-large seat was filled at a special election on 12 Nov 2025 for the unexpired term only (gov.fm, 21 Nov 2025; art. IX §12). The President may postpone voting in an affected district, municipality or polling place after a natural disaster or other event. We did not check amendments after the 2014 compilation.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "http://fsmlaw.org/fsm/code/code2014/FSMCode2014Tit09Chap07.html",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "FSM Code Title 9, ch. 7: §703 polls open 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (a later closing time for a concurrent state election prevails); §711 the National Election Director certifies no later than three days after the unofficial results of all four States have been received. See ch. 6 §605(7) for special polling places outside the FSM (7:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.) and ch. 8 §802 for petitions.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.fsmned.fm/PDF/RegistrationForm_322027_CongressionalGeneralElection.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "National Election Office voter registration form, linked from the fsmned.fm homepage. Its file name is 'RegistrationForm_322027_CongressionalGeneralElection', which points to 3/2/2027. The form itself does not print the date. We found no decree or published timetable for 2027.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Micronesian_general_election",
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            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          },
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            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
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            "origin": "authority",
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          "note": "There are no political parties; all candidates stand as independents. The President and Vice-President are chosen by Congress from its four at-large (4-year) members, so the 2027 at-large races also decide who can become President. A government market needs a deadline after the new Congress convenes (11 May by precedent)."
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