Your committee adopted the 1year rule for a resident because this is the length of residence which is required by nearly all the States in the Union. Nevertheless. criticism has been made that because of the 1year rule it would open the opportunity for the Importation of undesirables who would vote in elections.. In my opinion this is a pretty farfetched argument because first of all. 1 year Is quite a period of time for a migrant to live in one place. and In the second place before a person can vote he must register and sign an affidavit about his years residence. and if he signs this affidavit falsely he would be subject to prosecution for perjury. In addition to all this. a man to be elected to office must be voted on by all the voters in the District. and assuming that there would be 300.000 people who Would vote in the District out of a population of 850.000. It is evident that there would have to be at least an Importation of 150.000 people in order to swing an election.
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Immigrants are described as 'undesirables' who might be imported to swing elections.