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Right now, a special election must be held to choose a new senator. Governor Patrick is seeking to change this procedure so that the governor would appoint a senator to fill the remainder of the term.
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∙ 11y agoPer Chapter 236 of the Acts of 2004, a special election must be held within 145 days after a senate seat has been vacated. This would be either for death or departure from office. The rule replaced the more typical path of replacement in which the state's Governor would name a replacement.
In 2004, the rule was put in place because John Kerry was running for President and Massachusetts had a Republican Mitt Romney as Governor. Under the previous rules he could have replaced the democrat Kerry with a republican.
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