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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:41 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 15 September 2010 01:39
From Nola.com:
Early voting begins Saturday and runs through Sept. 25 — the sites are closed Sunday — but political pundits say turnout is expected to be low.
If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters will meet in a Nov. 2 runoff to fill the 14 months left in the term of former Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat, who resigned after being sworn in as mayor of New Orleans in May. Since then, Scott Angelle, a Democrat and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief legislative liaison, has filled the job on an interim basis but was barred by Jindal — who named him — from running for it.
Jindal aides said the governor is not backing a candidate in the Oct. 2 primary.
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