Palpatine in '08

[--Pete]

Hi,

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.

Right and wrong. The history is right and the processes is right for Missouri but not for Alaska. The details of the process vary from state to state and are covered by state, not federal, law.

--Pete