Why do we keep electing dead men to office?

Harry Carl Geary died suddenly a month before getting elected mayor of Tracy City, Tennessee.

Stonebraker died of a heart attack before getting re-elected mayor of Winfield, Missouri.

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</p> <p><a href="http://failocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/deadmenelected.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-565" title="Dead Men Elected Mayor in TWO Places!" src="http://failocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/deadmenelected.gif" alt="" width="513" height="335" /></a></p> <p><a>Harry Carl Geary died suddenly a month before getting elected </a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7595644/Dead-man-elected-as-US-mayor.html">mayor of </a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7595644/Dead-man-elected-as-US-mayor.html">Tracy City, Tennessee.</a></p> <p><a> Stonebraker died of a heart attack before getting re-elected </a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5132687/Missouri-elects-another-dead-leader.html">mayor of Winfield, Missouri. </a></p> <p> More political FAILs at <a href="http://failocracy.com/">FAILocray.com</a></p> <p>;<br />