October 5th, 2010 
Admin Question by caldude1010101: Would you vote for a candidate for Congress that did not reside in your district?
and had no clue about local issues?
Let me rephrase it with:
If the candidate on the ballot did not reside in the district he/she was running in, would you vote for them?
Best answer:
Answer by Uncle Pennybags
That would be illegal. So no, I wouldn’t.
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No, but apparently voters in New York’s 23rd District are.
~ I don’t think so. He/she would need to know something on the issues.
No not at All . It seems Ludicrous .
The U.S. Congress is composed of two houses; the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives:
1) If the candidate was running for a U.S. Senate seat it would be okay.
2) If the candidate was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives it would be illegal.
(However, it should be noted that gerrymandering of districts to prevent an incumbent from running would be political discrimination, and an abridgment of the right of the citizens of that district to choose the incumbent as their Representative under the U.S. Constitution.)
(This is just my opinion on this and does not represent any results from the legal study of this issue as presented in the commentary just above.)