Subject: [EL] what do people understand this sentence to mean?
From: Richard Winger
Date: 4/26/2011, 2:20 PM
To: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>
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"richardwinger@yahoo.com"

A Florida election law bill, which passed the Florida Senate Budget Committee today, has a sentence that I find ambiguous.  I am curious to see what readers think this means:

"The candidate has not been a registered member of any other political party in the calendar year leading up to the general election."

I don't know if that means 2012, for example, or 2011.  "Leading up to" is a vague expression to my eye.  But if I had to guess, I would guess it only means 2012, and not 2011.