St. Cloud Legislative candidate Sue Ek (R)is St. Paul resident: Ineligible

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Legislative candidate Sue Ek signed an affidavit July 9 saying she lived in St. Paul, 12 days after the deadline to establish residency in St. Cloud for a Dec. 27 special election.

The affidavit, plus the Republican House 15B candidate's record of voting in St. Paul from 2001-04, might disqualify her from eligibility, said David Schultz, a Hamline University and University of Minnesota professor who specializes in election law.

"If she was still living in the house in St. Paul and still registered to vote in St. Paul, she was still a resident of St. Paul," he said.

Minnesota law requires legislative candidates to establish residency in the district they hope to represent at least six months before the election. For this election, the deadline was June 27.

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