Nevada Primary

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/....ap/index.html

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Dead candidate remains on ballot
Nevada GOP chairman urges sympathy vote

Tuesday, August 15, 2006; Posted: 9:42 a.m. EDT (13:42 GMT)
What Is This? RENO, Nevada (AP) -- Nevada Republicans will get another reminder of the death of one of their statewide candidates when they vote in Tuesday's primary.

Under state law, election officials must post notices at polling places notifying voters that treasurer candidate Kathy Augustine is dead, even though her name remains on the ballot. Election officials didn't have enough time to remove her name.

Augustine was in a three-way Republican primary when she died July 11 at age 50. Her death, initially blamed on a heart attack, is under investigation.

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Why the hell would they put her on the ballet, this is retarded.

Perhaps they should elect her, in this physical state she'd be infinitely more useful than any other politician in Nevada's jaded history.

Didn't John Ashcroft lose to a dead guy once?

Didn't know that, but if that were a fact he should probably kill himself (in order to gain more votes for the next election). Kennedy would have won in a landslide if he had used this theory.

She looks like Anne Coulter's mother

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho.../augustine.jpg

Notice the adams apple.

If dead people can vote for Kennedy in Chicago, why can't they run for office? ;)

That is a great point, but Chicago has a certain affinity for allowing the dead to cast their votes.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Didn't John Ashcroft lose to a dead guy once?

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Yup.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In his bid for reelection to the Senate, Ashcroft faced a challenge from then-Governor Mel Carnahan. Carnahan died in an airplane crash two weeks prior to the November general election, but his name remained on the ballot due to Missouri state election laws. Lieutenant Governor Roger Wilson became Governor upon Carnahan's death. Wilson announced that should Carnahan be elected he would appoint his widow, Jean Carnahan, to serve in her husband's place; Mrs. Carnahan agreed to this arrangement.

Voters elected Mel Carnahan, although dead, by a narrow margin.

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