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Last Updated on Friday, 15 October 2010 03:46 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 13 October 2010 12:46
From nola.com:
The Nov. 2 election will mark the first time in Louisiana that a vacancy for lieutenant governor will be filled by a vote of the people. The last time the job came open, when Earl Long succeeded prison-bound ex-Gov. Richard Leche in 1939, under the old Constitution the president pro tempore of the state Senate moved into the No. 2 office.
Yet the historic nature of the election was insufficient to draw more than 22 percent of registered voters to the polls for the Oct. 2 primary when –another first — the office topped the statewide ballot.
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