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 ;>}
Article 1, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states:
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Note the words "when elected".
Mel Carnahan was not an inhabitant of Missouri at the time of the election, and so therefore was ineligible to be elected for the U.S. Senate seat. His votes should have been null and void.
(I just got around to reading your post this morning, sorry for the delay in response.)