[Phantom Lord]

No, the replacement will finish out Torchy's term.

I said that in the next sentence!

[aruanan]

I wonder if a case can be made that these laws don't apply when the people involved are trying to use them to circumvent an election in order to avoid losing the seat for their political party. There's a big difference between what they're doing and a Senator getting killed in a car accident or by an irate husband.