Published 1 year ago

Pennsylvania state representative reelected despite being dead

Summary by Ground News

Some people on social media claimed Pennsylvania voters reelected a state representative who died before the election took place. Pennsylvania law doesn't allow candidates to be replaced on printed ballots. State Rep. Tony DeLuca, an Allegheny County Democrat who represented Pennsylvania's 32nd Legislative District for nearly four decades, was reelected by a landslide.

0 Articles

All

Left

Center

Right

The Guardian

Democrat re-elected by a landslide in Pennsylvania – even though he’s dead

Win by longtime state representative Tony DeLuca, who died last month, triggers special election that will be held on a later date

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

Read Full Article

The Independent

Pennsylvania voters reelected a dead state representative on Tuesday night

Democrat Tony DeLuca, 85, died at the end of last month after a battle with lymphoma, a disease that he’d previously beat twice

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

Read Full Article

Associated Press News

Late Pennsylvania rep was on ballot due to law, not fraud

CLAIM: Pennsylvania reelected state Rep. Tony DeLuca, who is dead, which is suggestive of shoddy elections or cheating. AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. DeLuca, 85, died a month before Tuesday’s midterm elections.

1 year ago·United States

Read Full Article

Washington Times

Dead Pennsylvania lawmaker reelected; special election will fill his seat

Pennsylvania's longest-serving state representative was reelected Tuesday -- despite having died last month.

1 year ago·United States

Read Full Article

KRDO

Late Pennsylvania rep was on ballot due to law, not fraud

By ANGELO FICHERA and GRAPH MASSERA Associated PressVoters in Pennsylvania did reelect the late state Rep. Tony DeLuca in Tuesday’s midterm elections even though the 85-year-old Democrat died of cancer Oct. 9. But accusations that it suggested shoddy elections or cheating misrepresent the situation. State law stipulates that substitutes, in the case of the death of a candidate, cannot be submitted after ballots have started printing — late Septe…

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

Read Full Article