I just love all the people who suddenly have law degrees.
"for a year prior to the election" means the person should be a member for the year before the election. The purpose of this rule is to prevent someone coming in and buying the election. By rule, Eric does not qualify to be president, but I think if Eric joins ROAR right now, he should be allowed to run based on the number of years he has been a member.
Destroy ROAR? Okay, fine. No ROAR means no rules. No rules means RC racing dies.