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Court hears arguments on dead North Dakota candidate's seat

by James MacPHERSON
| November 20, 2020 10:27 AM

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Constitution gives Gov. Doug Burgum the right to appoint someone to a state House seat won by a Republican candidate who died before the election, his lawyer argued Friday as the state Supreme Court waded into what attorneys called an unprecedented case.

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