Palpatine in '08

[Kevin]

I think the governor appoints a replacement. They were talking about this on the radio, yesterday. You are right if he quits before the election, it defaults to the democrat.

Governor appoints a replacement and then 2 years later a special election is held to elect a new senator to serve the other 4 years. This is actually closer to what happened in MO with the Carnahan vs Ashcroft election. Mel died, but was left on the ballot because there was not time to get another candidate on the ballot. The gov actually appointed his wife and 2 years later another election was held that she won. Though I may be remembering something wrong (I should just look it up but no time right now). It may have been that a special referendum or something was passed to allow the wife to take the appointment until the special election could be held, but I seem to recall the gov actually appointing the seat.