Dead Republican wins 19% of the vote....

[Jack from Charlotte]

in a republican primary in Nevada. No not... brain dead. Brain dead republicans win elections all the time. She was all dead. And not....."only mostly dead."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/aug/15/081510780.html

snip...

"With about three-quarters of the primary vote counted, DeStefano had 43 percent. Former state Controller Kathy Augustine, who died last month, Joseph Pitts and "none of these candidates" each polled about 19 percent."

[Dragonbreathp9d]

1. Hahaha!

"You've been mostly dead all day!"

Love that film!

[BlooInBloo]

2. Though I'm generally 110% in favor of individuals' voting rights...

... I might be okay with a law that says something like:

"Anyone voting for a candidate who has died more than a week before the election shall not be allowed to vote for 2 years, after which a mandatory "ballot familiarity" class shall be required be fore reinstating voting privileges."

[tsuki]

12. Then I would not vote for 2 years. Can you think of a better way

to tell the politicals that you think they are doing a sh*t job than voting for a dead person?

[BlooInBloo]

18. More to the point, I can't think of a better way to tell a *voter*...

... that s/he is doing a shit job by voting for dead candidates.

BTW - Was your 'I vote or dead people' episode a write-in thing? Or was is an actual ballot candidate, who died before the election. My suggestion was in reference to the latter situation, not the former. It could be phrased a bit better to make the distinction clear.

[tsuki]

24. You know, Ashcroft lost an election to a dead person in 2000 (Carnahan.)

And if I had lived in Missouri at that time, I would have voted for the dead person.

I've heard Ashcroft sing. :shrug:

[SharonAnn]

3. But, was she "most sincerely dead"? From the Wizard of Oz

[Eugene]

4. The Repubs were afraid she might win.

She came in second.

[unpossibles]

5. then the cheating would be too obvious

although this explains Dick Cheney's popularity

[rurallib]

6. More popular than Cheney! (18% approval)

[unpossibles]

15. I was thinking something similar

that this explains Cheney's popularity.

scary and sad, like a trainwreck full of zombie clowns.

[Ravenseye]

7. Didn't a dead democrat beat John Ashcroft back in 2000?

Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash 2 weeks before the elction and they still prefered him over the very living Ashcroft...

Just saying....works both ways...

[boolean]

8. Can we have IQ tests before people vote?

Honestly. Let's make it so you can't vote unless you pass an IQ test. Republicans are such idiots.

[MadHound]

9. Hey, here in Missouri we voted for a dead man over Ashcroft

Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash a few weeks before the '00 Senate election. It was too late to take his name off the ballot, and the govenor all but swore he would appoint Mel's widow if he won. Well, we had had enough of Ashcroft, so instead we voted the dead man in. Sadly, as a concolation prize, Bush appointed Ashcroft as AG.

Sorry, we tried to take the guy out of politics.

[tsuki]

25. I liked it when the Missouri Republis tried to invalidate the election

because Mel Carnahan was dead, so he no longer "lived" in the state. D'OH. :silly:

[MadHound]

27. I would say that six feet under

Is about as "in" the state as one can get:shrug:

[tsuki]

29. But, their point was that he wasn't "living" in the state. I understand

they gave it up when the ridicule set in. Maybe that's what we need to do, laugh at the SOBs.

[gratuitous]

10. I thought the punch line was going to be . . .

Dead Republican wins 19% of the vote, "Declared winner by Diebold voting machines."

Hey, I guess Jack Carter won his primary race in Nevada

[bpeale]

11. sad

This is just sad ... and goes to show just how out of touch a lot of Americans are.

[WI_DEM]

13. not always unusual--Ashcroft was defeated in '00 by a dead dem.

I thought the electorate of MO made a great choice!

[Jamastiene]

17. If only the rest of the country could have had

the brains to see that a dead dem can run a state (and country) better than a living sorry excuse for a human being like that...Oh how nice things could have been these last few loonnnngggggggg years.

[Initech]

14. To quote the Simpsons - "The dead have risen and are voting Republican!"

[Fierce]

16. Some voted for Wellstone after he died, too.

nt

[dflprincess]

19. If they did, their votes weren't counted.

By election day, Wellstone was no longer an official candidate. The original section of the ballot that had the senate candidates listed were crossed out. If you used that section of the ballot to vote in the senate race, your vote was thrown out. We were given separate ballots to use in the senate race with Mondale replacing Wellstone as the DFL candidate. The only votes that were actually cast for Wellstone were the ones sent in by absentee voters all of whom did not have a chance to revote. The absentee ballots for Wellstone were not counted. However, if he had died one or two days later, his name would have remained on the ballot and we could have voted for him.

However, the deceased Mel Carnahan did beat John Aschcroft in the Missouri Senate race in 2000.

[Fierce]

21. I know.

I was just throwing it out there.

[Emit]

20. Two Points about this Race

1. There were people on a grassroots level calling for voters to vote for her as a sympathy vote -- it was advertised in light of the fact that there was suspicion about her death -- I think her husband is being investigated for her death.

2. Perhaps part of the reason this was occurring is that if she had won the vote, then the state Repub party could've chosen a replacement for her:

Paul Adams, the state Republican Party chairman, says the party's central committee will meet August 19th in Reno and, if Augustine wins the August 15th primary, review other candidates and pick a replacement for the November 7th general election ballot.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14184524/

(I live in Reno, NV -- her death was all over the news for weeks -- the majority of these votes were for these reasons above, not because people didn't know she had died)

[yella_dawg]

22. If dead is worth 19%

Then Delay will retake his house seat.

[electron_blue]

23. Ah, Bush's "base"

[warrens]

26. Dead republican mo betta than live republican

Cause less harm. Stink less too.

[LibDemAlways]

28. In my small town there was an old guy who had

been on the school board for about 30 years. He had a stroke and was in a nursing home. Could no longer attend meetings. Yet, he ran once again and died about a week before the election. His whack job wife urged everyone to vote for him anyway, and some did. He wasn't re-elected, but he got votes. Some peeople are stupid. Others are plain nuts.

[spanone]

30. Now that's a republican even I might vote for.