지방선거 입후보를 위한 60일 이상의 주민등록 요건에 대한 비판적 검토

Resident registration is only an administrative and procedural means of confirming the fact of a resident's residence. It seems difficult to deny the requirement of resident registration itself as part of the efforts to ensure that all the administrative and procedural requirements are met in a local election. Candidates can form a sense of solidarity and unity with residents through a variety of activities rather than resident registration, which means that it will be enough in administrative and procedural aspects to ask candidates to have their resident registration completed on the basis date of preparation of the electoral register. If candidates are not allowed to run for the official election of the head of the local government for not meeting the resident registration requirement of 60 days or more due to a reason not attributable to themselves, there will be a huge infringement on their fundamental rights. This is an infringement on the eligibility for election. A requirement that candidates should have their resident registration for 60 days or more in the election of the head of the local government is not only an infringement on their fundamental rights, but also a violation of voters' freedom of choice to vote for them.