In an interesting turn of events, a dead Democratic woman, Marie Steichen, received a majority of the votes over her Republican rival in a South Dakota town in the election of November 7th. Yahoo! News reports that Ms. Steichen died of cancer in September, and that the voters in the town did indeed understand that she was dead, but still voted for her in order to make a point. Read the rest of the article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061108/od_afp/usvoteoffbeat_061108233829

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