Monday, 10 June 2013

Tales From the Vault - Dead Man Wins Election

Tales From the Vault - Dead Man Wins Election


A candidate won election to a North Carolina county board in 2006 - despite having been dead for a month. Sam Duncan polled 12,000 votes more than his opponents to gain election to Union County's Soil and Water Conservation Board. County officials knew of Duncan's death before the election, but nobody had informed the voters.

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