Minnesota Today from MPR News

November 8, 2012

Rochester elects a dead man

“Many strange and unique things can come out of elections, but in the city of Rochester, residents did something very few communities have done. They elected a deceased candidate.

“Voting Dennis Hanson as their City Council President. Every sign, every banner, a memory. Memory of a man who devoted much of his life to the place he called home.

“‘It was very successful in our eyes,’ Linda Hanson says,” via KAAL.