There were various dead candidates this year. I heard of a couple in my area(s) within just a few days of the election. This is the first one I heard that won, though.

There's not enough time to reprint ballots, obviously, and undoubtedly there were voters who did not get the news. For those who did, in this case, voting for the dead candidate was exactly the same as "none of the above".

~ Becky in Long Beach (and often Tucson)