(f) Upon failure to choose a senator in congress or upon a vacancy in that office, the governor shall make a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy; provided, however, that the person so appointed shall serve until the election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy pursuant to subsection (a) or (c).All Massachusetts US Senate Candidates are already qualified by the terms of the US Constitution. The Massachusetts legislature probably should have said until certification if they wanted to keep the appointed Senator in office after election but before certification. Massachusetts' interim Senator Paul Kirk is out by law at election even before certification by plain reading the law code. LOL
Thanks, that looks pretty clear to me but the RATS will surely come up with something phony to dispute it, they always seem to. :)