Foun this in yesterday's news, and didn't see it posted.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. - A judge ruled Wednesday that the winner of a state Senate election is not entitled to the seat because she did not meet a residency requirement.
Franklin County Circuit Judge William Graham said resolution of the contest is still up to the Senate, but that Republican Dana Seum Stephenson was not a state resident for six years before the 2004 election as the Kentucky Constitution requires.
Stephenson received more votes than Democrat Virginia Woodward, who went to court the day before the November election and said Stephenson lived in Indiana from 1997 to 2001, including voting there.
A special committee of state senators later found that Stephenson did not meet residency rules. But
the majority Republicans voted to declare that she was a legal resident and make her a senator.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=616&e=1&u=/ap/20050602/ap_on_el_st_lo/kentucky_senateso, our lesson for today is: "if the rules don't fit, ignore them..."