Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
If this clause means what Duggan claims it does, he could have filed for office the day he moved into the city and registered to vote because that was more than a year from the deadline to file. That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
You've got a few problems here...

[[1) The Clerk's office ok'd the filing. What they should have done was ask, "Has it been 365 days since you became a Detroit resident?". When he answered no, they would have responded, "Ok, come back when it has been 365 days....lucky for you, it's before the deadline."

[[2) The Michigan Supreme Court has several opinions which make specific kinds of residency requirements unconstitutional by state law. Yes, you can certainly have a residency requirement. But it cannot be for a specific amount of time.

[[3) The statute also reads that you have to be a resident 1 year before filing. This is another problem with the language. What if it has been 2 years of residency? The language doesn't say, "at least" 1 year or "for more than" 1 year...I have no idea how this will play out.