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Brockton elections official seeks one-year residency requirement for candidates
Summary
Cynthia Hogan, Brockton's elections director, urged the Joint Committee on Election Laws to allow cities to require candidates to live in the city for at least one year before running for office, citing repeated cases of nonresident candidates using business addresses to qualify.
Cynthia Hogan, executive director of elections for the City of Brockton, urged the Joint Committee on Election Laws to approve a local measure that would require candidates for municipal office to have lived in the city for at least one year before running.
"I want to have the people that are running for office live in the city for a year," Hogan told the…
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