Office of Northeast CJO cinyc (June Northern Election Results Posted)

[Lincoln Republican]

Please note that I have preliminarily decided to put SWE on the ballot, despite not being resident in the Northeast.  Unfortunately, the Northeast Constitution has no requirement that the Governor be a registered voter in the Northeast, unlike for Northeast Representatives or CJO.  So I have no obvious power to keep him off the ballot.  

If someone knows of some law or precedent to keep a non-Northeasterner off of the gubernatorial ballot, please let me know.

This is an absolute outrage to have someone on the ballot for the office of Northeast Governor who is not even resident in the Northeast.

His motives for running for Northeast Governor while he is in fact resident in another region is suspect to say the least.  If he doesn't even care enough to be resident in the region he hopes to lead then he has no business being Governor of said region.

This is stupidity run amok and must not be tolerated.

Precedent alone should be enough to keep this carpetbagger off the ballot.

[Lincoln Republican]

This is an absolute outrage to have someone on the ballot for the office of Northeast Governor who is not even resident in the Northeast.

His motives for running for Northeast Governor while he is in fact resident in another region is suspect to say the least.  If he doesn't even care enough to be resident in the region he hopes to lead then he has no business being Governor of said region.

This is stupidity run amok and must not be tolerated.

Precedent alone should be enough to keep this carpetbagger off the ballot.

The Northeast Constitution trumps any precedent (and best I can tell, it is unprecedented, anyway).  There is a specific requirement that the CJO and Northeast Representatives be registered Northeast voters.  There is no such requirement for the Governor.  I can't read something into the constitution that isn't there.  If the voters of the Northeast think someone from outside the region deserves to be governor, so be it.

There will be a constitutional amendment on the August ballot to fix this.  I expect it to pass by a wide margin.

The constitution may not say anything about candidates for Governor must be resident in the Northeast, however, the constitution also does not say specifically that non residents may be candidates for Governor.