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AG: North Dakota governor can't fill dead candidate's seat

by James MacPHERSON
| November 5, 2020 12:09 AM

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has no authority to appoint a coal company executive to fill a state House seat won by a Republican candidate who died before the election, the attorney general said Wednesday.

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