Dead woman wins election

A dead woman won an election to a rural school board in Alaska - on the toss of a coin.

Katherine Dunton died on the day of the election which left her and challenger Dona Highstone tied.

Even with Dunton's death, state law required a tie vote to be settled by lot after an official recount.

Highstone called heads, but the coin landed on tails. The school board at Adak must now find a replacement.

Elections director Whitney Brewster said nobody in the election office could remember anything like it happening before.

"This is definitely a new one for the division, and it's just, just ... I'm speechless, frankly," she said.

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Night of the living School Board

That's not so unusual... our current school board are all dead too... (least you'd think so sometimes)

how weird

its a sign of the times

weird.....i bet the other womans not happy she lost to a dead person

"Speechless" .. indeed .. really a bizarre incident.

How stupid. Why not just give the live woman the job?? The other woman died for crying out loud? Best 2 out of 3.

A nation of the dead sounds interesting. You still have to convince me though that all our leaders in the past 50 or so years haven't been dead. LOL