Conspiracy theories popped up on social media after voters in a suburban Pittsburgh state House district re-elected the Democratic incumbent even though he died in October.
A long-serving Democratic state House member easily won re-election in suburban Pittsburgh on Tuesday -even though he had been dead for a month.
“Honestly, you’d think you would feel, like, weird about it, but I don’t because now I have a chance to be like, ‘Hey, tell me why I lost,’” Livingston told PennLive. “There is no mechanism for removing a candidate’s name from the ballot – without giving the party an opportunity to substitute another candidate – once ballots have been printed for a general election,” she said.
Mike Yanchak, who worked on Livingston’s campaign, said the situation grew “comical” when he went to vote and there were Democratic volunteers at the polling place handing out placards with DeLuca’s name on it.To fill the vacant seat the speaker of the state House must schedule a special election, but which party will control that chamber in January remains up in the air. Democrats have declared that they flipped the House, while Republicans have put the brakes on those claims.
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