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The result was: promoted by DirtyHarry991talk 07:56, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Overall: If we are going for wit I am definitely willing to gloss over the minutiae whether we are fine leveraging the misdirection of "in jail" to not explicitly mean an inmate, but merely be in a jail. My understanding is that to stand, you must be eligible to vote. It was noted in a source that at least one voter was not an inmate. I'll give it a couple of days for any objections but otherwise I think this is good to go. Approving based on ALT2. Seddontalk 13:52, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
@Seddon: The one mentioned case of a non-incarcerated person voting was in the old 7F07, which also included the women's shelter and, in the final years of the district's existence, the Park Kennedy apartments. But per the first source cited above, the line for 7F08 was drawn specifically so no one other than inmates would live there. And [1] (should have cited above, sorry) confirms that as of June 2022, 100% of residents of the district were incarcerated. That said, on reflection, I'm going to strike ALT0 for a different reason: my use of the word "run". This is a bit esoteric, but under D.C. law, eligibility is only assessed if you win, which means that you or I could run, and, as long as we affirmed our write-in candidacies but didn't win, would not be disqualified. (Although a subsequent fraud prosecution might make us eligible for the next election!) Anyways, maybe that's excessive autopedantry, but:
This also adds a good "can"/"may" distinction: it's not that it's a legal requirement to be incaracerated; it's that there is not currently any lawful way to be commissioner without residing in the D.C. Jail. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 16:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
@Seddon: Sorry to complicate things after you approved this, but I've been turning this over in my head and now think my fix isn't that much better. The main issue is that the use of "one"—originally introduced to avoid the ambiguity of "a"—now adds ambiguity of its own, potentially implying some rule where inmates can represent one seat but non-inmates can represent multiple. (Also I should have said "district", not "seat".) Just mulled over a few options with theleekycauldron and we (mostly she, unless it's bad, in which case mostly me) came up with
This might make a good quirky hook.(?)
