On January 31, Oregon held a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, First District. The unofficial results: Suzanne Bonamici, Democrat, 53.96%; Rob Cornilles, Republican, 39.65%; Steven Reynolds, Progressive, 3.23%; James Foster, Libertarian, 3.16%.
In November 2010, the results for this same seat had been: Democratic 54.82%; Republican 42.00%; Constitution 1.32%; Green/Progressive 1.01%; Libertarian .85%.
Cost per vote for the suffering taxpayers ???
One more const amdt section — have each candidate/incumbent have a rank order list of replacements.
Default – legislative body to fill any vacancy by member of same party, if any.
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