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This article in the Washington Post notes that Karl Rove was claiming a homestead exemption for property both in D.C. as well as in Travis County, TX.

While that's illegal, apparently our elected officials don't care:

"Rove sold his longtime home in Austin in 2003. He was getting a homestead exemption there, too. So for three years, from 2001 until the sale, Rove was claiming homesteads in Texas and Washington, which is, technically, illegal, according to tax collectors in both cities. "Strictly speaking, you can only have one homestead," said Art Cory, chief tax appraiser in Travis County, Tex.

"Cory said he would, nonetheless, probably not bother to investigate.

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"Down in Texas, when you register to vote in a place where you don't actually live, the county prosecutor can come after you for voter fraud, said Elizabeth Reyes, an attorney with the elections division of the Texas Secretary of State. Rove's rental cottage "doesn't sound like a residence to me, because it's not a fixed place of habitation," she said. "If it's just property that they own, ownership doesn't make that a residence."

"Still, under state law, the definition of a Texan is really pretty loose, Reyes said, even for voting purposes. So someone would have to file a complaint.

"In the end, she said, "Questions of residency are ultimately for the court to decide.""

9/10/05: Update to this story: A lawyer for the Texas Secretary of States office who was quoted in this store was fired Tuesday.