http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/nyregion/gop-voters-urged-to-select-dead-assemblyman-in-new-york-race.html?_r=0by Vivian Yee
September 12, 2016
Voters are being urged to cast their ballots for a dead man. Three men in a room are preparing to pick his political heir. The funeral has yet to be held, but the struggle to replace him is already on.
Bill Nojay, who was first elected to the Assembly in 2012 and was a prominent cheerleader for Donald J. Trump, was supposed to have little trouble on Tuesday. He was, however, fending off at least one federal investigation related to his business interests outside the Legislature.
Yet far from embracing (primary challenger Rick Milne, the mayor of the village of Honeoye Falls), as the last Republican in the race, local Republican and Conservative Party leaders are telling voters to stick with Mr. Nojay. If Mr. Nojay wins, election law states, Republican party leaders in the three counties that fall partly or fully within the 133rd Assembly District — Livingston, Monroe and Steuben — will choose someone to run as the general-election Republican candidate in his place. They have until 10 days after his death to do so, or about a week after the primary on Tuesday. If he loses to his challenger, Mr. Milne will simply claim the nomination.
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