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Not 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
by timmytokyo 4y ago
Not 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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