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Election date range

Mass law sets the date range for special elections for senators at 145 to 160 days after the vacancy occurs. Kennedy died on August 25, so there are seven days left in August 2009. There are 122 days among the last four months of the year for a total of 129. To get to 145, we need 16 more days, January 16. Of course January 31 is 15 days after that. Since the article originally said Jan. 17 to Feb. 1, I ask: how is my count wrong? -Rrius (talk) 08:22, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's because his "official" date of death is 26th August... 87.194.177.211 (talk) 09:28, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 ==Election date range==
 Mass law sets the date range for special elections for senators at 145 to 160 days after the vacancy occurs. Kennedy died on August 25, so there are seven days left in August 2009. There are 122 days among the last four months of the year for a total of 129. To get to 145, we need 16 more days, January 16. Of course January 31 is 15 days after that. Since the article originally said Jan. 17 to Feb. 1, I ask: how is my count wrong? -[[User:Rrius|Rrius]] ([[User talk:Rrius|talk]]) 08:22, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
+It's because his "official" date of death is 26th August... [[Special:Contributions/87.194.177.211|87.194.177.211]] ([[User talk:87.194.177.211|talk]]) 09:28, 26 August 2009 (UTC)