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Dead Man Wins City Election In California

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Reply Mon 14 Nov, 2016 07:39 pm
It's happened before: Mel Carnahan was elected US Senator from Missouri almost a month after his death in 2000.

I looked up his Wikipedia page to confirm the year this happened, and discovered there was another case still too:

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In 2010, Jenny Oropeza died of an illness just a month before voters (posthumously) re-elected her in the Long Beach district during the California State Senate race.
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