Hey, dead people have been voting in elections by the thousands for years. Besides, electing a dead person will probably result in less harm than…...well…..you know….
Why should a dead candidate be able to run? If we outlawed it, how would we arrest those who do it anyway?
Why should they win? Given what Congress has managed to get done with Roadblock Republicans always able to filibuster in the Senate and the Tea Party making John Boehner Puppet of the House, I should think a dead legislator could be every bit as effective as a living one.
If we had instant run-off voting, then including a corpse or a pile of garbage on the ballot might be a good idea, since that superior voting system would then show us how much the voters actually approved of the candidates, instead of allowing the least terrible option presented by the established political cliques to get into office.
It could be nice to have a system that helped require candidates to be better than a dead body.