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Committee tweaks residency language for election eligibility, favors election-day test
5914805 · October 8, 2025
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Summary
City attorney advised the committee to use election-day as the residency cutoff rather than the start of the filing period; the committee accepted the change to make the rule clearer to voters and more legally defensible.
The Sweet Home Charter Review Committee adopted revised residency language that sets election day as the relevant residency cutoff for local office eligibility, a change the city attorney said is more legally defensible and easier for the public to understand.
City Attorney Blair Larson told the committee…
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