Letter to the editor: Electing the dead is not so unusual

According to Newsweek magazine, there have been a number of people elected to office despite the fact that they were dead. Newsweek identified Simon Silva as the winner of last Tuesday’s election for city attorney in Chula Vista, Calif., despite dying a month before the election. In Tennessee, a Memphis area state representative named Barbara Cooper (who died two weeks before the election) defeated her opponent for her seat in the Tennessee State House. Earlier this year, residents of Palmhurst, Texas, voted to keep their mayor despite his death before the election.

Newsweek cited other examples in earlier years in Wyoming and North Dakota. So your Nov. 14 editorial cartoon is wrong.

Sheryl Stolzenberg

Squirrel Hill