My town elected a dead guy yesterday

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I kid you not. <Here> is the link. I'm very aware that if somebody dies after being put on the ballot then they are stuck there. I also know that sometimes it happens by accident, that the dead guy wins.

Now I want you to think about this for a second ok? I live in a small town, surrounded by a few other widely spaced small towns, in a rural county. Folks tend to know when somebody dies. It's not like in a city where you don't know who the people are four streets over. We not only know who they are, but we know all their dirty laundry because everybody in this town talks. Everybody in all the towns talk. I could go to Six Mile and tell somebody's secret and by nightfall they would know it up in Brookwood. That is yet another reason most folks knew he was dead.

My point in that last paragraph is that at least 90% of the people who voted for him knew he was dead and voted for him anyway.

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as einstein said:

We voted for a dead guy yesterday too for City Council. Everyone had to know he was dead because his death was well publicized in the local news. I just think that people are probably did not care for the opponent and wanted a new slate and that was how to get it. After all, would you run again if you could not beat a dead person in the polls?

Maybe they saw "Weekend At Bernies" one too many times

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In Chicago the dead vote early and often.

ruveyn

It's all part of what makes America trully great and scares the s**t out of the rest of the world.

I bet he got the Tea Party vote.


The Tea Party likes small, hands-off government... A dead guy seems perfect for that.

A lot of people just quickly look at whichever candidate is in the political-party they support when filling out their ballot especially for local/state positions. In this case a lot of them must've just very quickly looked who the republican candidate was without looking at his name closely when voting.

And they will defend their god-given right to vote for dead people!

Does that mean the person with the second most votes wins? or do they have to put it on the ballot again?

In Minnesota, it means a special election with new candidates. Not sure in Georgia. I remember in Missouri, a dead man won the seat for US House a couple of years back and his wife was allowed to serve his place. Election laws are really state level rules so one cannot say.

Something else funny about our county election,last election we voted for a new jail to be built,it was BUT we voted against any new tax revenue to actually run the jail,so the jail has set empty and useless.Criminals have to be taken to the county above us and housed.Well this year again on the ballot ,taxes to run the new jail,again it failed.So we have a brand spanking new jail that just sits there.
We almost got the medical marijuana,lost by about 5,000 votes,if only those stoners could remember what day election day is we may have passed it.

There was a dead guy on my county's ballot a few years ago, as he was running for reelection to the sheriff's position when he died before election day. I think what might have happened if he won is that the county supervisors would have appointed someone to take that position, but the person who was alive on election day won instead.

Your town...

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this reminded me of the movie I saw when I was a kid
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)