[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

A deceased individual cannot recieve legal votes in an election. Thus, all of Mel Carnahan's votes were null and void when they were counted and John Ashcroft won by a very large margin. Senator Ashcroft, however, gave in to the voters will and refused to push forward the legal case he surely would have won and that allowed the Governor to select who would serve in the Senate until the next regular State election. The Senate could have refused to seat her on two grounds.

First, the seat was legitimately won by John Ashcroft.

Second, the acting Governor had promised to appoint her prior to the election which is in violation of election laws.

Neither issue caused the Senate to refuse her, and she was sworn in as a new Senator.

[alfa6]

I am afraid that this is a subject that we may have to agree to disagree on. I take no comfort in the fact that the widder is in the Senate, however the election was conducted in concordance with the Statutes of the state of Misssouri. The one possible exception would be then Govenor Wilson stating that he would appoint the widder to the seat if her husband won the election.
It is posible that there might have been a legal case there but had the pubbies fought her seating on those grounds they would have been pilloried in the press.

Wanna talk vote fraud and I'm with you on that issue but not on the widders being seated according to the duly constituted laws of the state of MIsssouri.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}