Now, the state’s attorney general said the governor can’t appoint someone to fill the empty seat, which he attempted to do one day after the election.
A North Dakota state legislative candidate died from in October — one month before Election Day. David Andahl, a Republican running for the state’s House of Representatives won his race on Tuesday. Now, there is a dispute over what to do with his empty seat. Andahl,55, had been hospitalized and died after being sick for about four days, according to his mother Pat Andahl, who told The Bismarck Tribune in October.
