Brice Yokem wrote in part:
> Phil, I am tempted to agree with you, except my write-in will be Alfred E
Newman.
My write-in vote for an office for which there is no candidate conservative
enough (and that happens a lot in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) is
"NOTA". I keep hoping that, just once, NOTA will receive the most votes.
Although, frankly, I have no idea what happens in that case, "Brewster's
Millions" notwithstanding.

There was however a landmark case in which an incumbent in a local race in
Oklahoma lost to a retiree. However, the retiree had died between nomination
and election, so the incumbent thought himself sure of success. The voting
public voted for the dead man, so the incumbent took it to court, again
confident of victory, since you can't elect a dead man. But the court noted
that the law only stated that you cannot nominate a dead man, and did not
address the contingency where a man is nominated, and then dies. So the
court ruled that it had to be handled as though an office-holder died while
in office, with a special election. And the previous incumbent found losing
to a dead man impossible to live down.

Such prospects bring some excitement into some otherwise less interesting
elections.

Greg Stigers

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