US midterm elections: Re-elected despite being dead…

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Anthony “Tony” DeLuca succumbed to lymphoma on October 9 at the age of 85. But it was too late to change the ballots, so he remained the Democratic candidate in the 32nd district, explains a report by the New York Daily News, which is relayed by the German Agency.

Pennsylvania voters re-elected a Democrat to the state House of Representatives with an overwhelming 85% of the vote last Tuesday.

The problem is that he died last month.

Anthony “Tony” DeLuca succumbed to lymphoma on October 9 at the age of 85. But it was too late to change the ballots, so he remained the Democratic candidate in the 32nd district, explains a report by the New York Daily News, which is relayed by the German Agency.

Tony DeLuca represented the — traditionally blue — district from 1983 until his death. He was the longest serving member of the state House of Representatives.

No Republican candidate opposed Toni DeLuca, who had a Green Party candidate as her only opponent (she received 14% of the vote).

“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Congressman Tony DeLuca, we are filled with pride that voters once again demonstrated their confidence in him and their commitment to Democratic values ​​by re-electing him posthumously,” said the committee that conducted the election campaign of the faction in the state.

A special election process will be held to fill the seat. The date remains to be announced.

This is not the first time that dead candidates have won elections in the US. Brothel owner Dennis Hoff, though deceased, won a Nevada state Senate seat in 2018. Democrat Mel Carnahan beat Republican then-U.S. Sen. John Ashcraft in a 2000 runoff for the Missouri seat, though he had lost his life three weeks earlier, in the plane crash.

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