Monday 8 March 2004: A Territorial Convention made up of all interested voters meets to choose 6 of American Samoa's 12 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (together representing 3 pledged delegates of American Samoa's 6 total delegate votes at the National Convention).

• "These 6 at-large delegates to the National Convention are elected in 'preference caucuses' at the Territorial Convention which allocate these delegates to the presidential contenders in a way which reflects the percentage of support for the candidates at the Territorial Convention- a mandatory 15 percent threshold being necessary in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates."
• Each of these 6 Pledged delegates will only cast ½ (or .5) of a vote on the floor of the Democratic National Convention.

The remaining 6 delegates (representing American Samoa's remaining 3 delegate votes) are Unpledged PLEOs who will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

The 3 "Unpledged" votes are cast by 6 actual delegates as follows:

• This territory's Democratic Member of Congress (Territorial Delegate Eni Faleomavaega) (=a non-voting Delegate in the House of Representatives); the territorial Delegate is an "Unpledged PLEO" and casts 1 delegate vote.
• This territory's Democratic Governor (Governor Togiola Tulafono); the territorial Governor is an "Unpledged PLEO" and casts 1 delegate vote.
• This territory's 4 Democratic National Committee members: each of these territorial DNC members casts ¼ vote (=.25 vote) apiece for a total of 1 delegate vote.