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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bokor finds the trial court properly found in favor of the candidate in a lawsuit from the city claiming that, under the city charter and city codes, he did not qualify to run for city commissioner because he did not meet certain residency requirements, in part due to changes in the electoral maps in June 2023 from a federal lawsuit over unconstitutional gerrymandering. The trial court correctly held that the plain language of the city charter controls, and under that plain language, without reading any extra words into it, the candidate qualifies to run because he lived in his district for more than 20 years before the maps changed months ahead of the election, satisfying the charter's requirements that candidates "shall have resided" within their district for at least one year before qualifying as a candidate. Affirmed.