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  The state has to schedule and hold a special election for the unexpired term of the House seat. That is the only way House vacancies are filled between normal elections.
  In the US Congress, only Senators can have replacements appointed, and that's only in some states. Some states just have an appointee serve the remainder of the term, others have an appointee serve temporarily until a special election can be held, and still others keep the seat vacant until a special election.
context: How is nobody looking into where this loser got 700k to loan his campaign? His source of money has got to be as stinky as the rest of his story - Probably a Russian touching it somewhere >
  
  I fucking knew it. This dude needs to go to jail 
  Thanks for the link >
  
  So what happens if he resigns, anyone know? Who picks the replacement? Could this have been the end game all along, getting someone in there who was un-electable? I'm just curious, and I'm not real knowledgeable on politics.