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The party that opposed him ran a literal dead person for a house seat in another state, and the dead guy won. It wasn't even unusual - several dead people have
by pclmulqdq 4y ago
The party that opposed him ran a literal dead person for a house seat in another state, and the dead guy won. It wasn't even unusual - several dead people have won elections. I'm pretty sure I saw a poll that showed that most voters didn't know he was dead. I doubt it would have affected him much if his fraud were exposed.
- timmytokyo 4y agoNot sure why this is being downvoted. In 2000 Mel Carnahan won a US Senate seat in Missouri despite having died 3 weeks earlier in a plane crash. His wife Jean was appointed by the governer to serve until the next special election could be held.
- jeffbee 4y agoYou make it sound like "Weekend at Bernie's" shenanigans but the reality of life is sometimes the candidate dies too close to the election to change the ballots. It's not that weird, it's not intentional, and Mel Carnahan wasn't some fictitious unknown, he was the governor of the state.
- jmull 4y ago> Not sure why this is being downvoted I can only guess, but it's ambiguous, irrelevant and needlessly casts this as a partisan issue.
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- HWR_14 4y agoI have no idea why voting for a dead person would be controversial or bad. Voting for a conman is clearly bad.
- davidw 4y agoThis was a close race, not some race in, say, rural Wyoming or San Francisco where one party is essentially the only one that counts.