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Dear Ms. Johnson:

I am in receipt of your letter requesting an opinion regarding residency requirements of registered voters. I understand your question to be as follows:

What are the residency requirements to be eligible to vote in a parish?

Jurisprudence has long held that a person may have only one "domicile", which is a principal domestic establishment, but have more than one "residence". (Turner v. Alexis, App. 4 Cir. 1983, 436 So.2d 1346.) Revised Statutes 18:101 (A) and (B) states, in pertinent part:

"A.(1) Every citizen of Louisiana who is a least eighteen years of age or will attain that…