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Some parents and voters in Prince George’s County have reacted with outrage after finding out a school board member has spent essentially all of this year working for a school system in Ferguson, Missouri, while maintaining his elected office in Maryland.
They were quick to point out a state law that said school board members are required to live in the district they represent, making it — in their minds — impossible for someone to hold a full-time job that requires them to work in-person halfway across the country.
In the court of public opinion, they might have a case. In a court of law, they might not. It turns out where you live is where you live, even if you’re not really living there all the time.
“We all think we know where we live, but it gets awfully complicated,” said Donald Tobin, an election law expert and law professor at the University of Maryland’s Carey School of Law in Baltimore. “Once we have a domicile or residence, that is our domicile or residence until we have successfully changed that to a different domicile or residence. Going somewhere else doesn’t necessarily change that domicile or residence.”
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