BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota voters have approved a ballot measure requiring that elected state legislators live in the districts they represent.
It's been an open secret at the Capitol over the years that a handful of lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, haven't lived in the district they represent.
The North Dakota Constitution only specifies that state lawmakers live in the district from which they are elected on the day of the election.
The relaxed language spurred some lawmakers to move outside their districts once elected, which legislative leaders from both parties sought to prevent in the bipartisan resolution lawmakers passed last year.