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Carol and Eric Hafner

American political activists

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Carol Hafner and her son, Eric G. Hafner, are American political activists and perennial candidates, a mother and son known for running in United States House of Representatives elections in states of which they are not residents or have never visited. This is allowed by Article One of the United States Constitution which only requires that representatives live in the state in which they are chosen when elected.

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“Carol and Eric Hafner” enters the record as american political activists. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Carol, Eric and Hafner can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carol and Eric Hafner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.