"What about Mondale?" indeed: Walter Mondale.

[merrily]

5. OK. It was not the secretary of state's decision, but state law, because Wellstone had died.

Democrats have until Thursday, four days before the election, to name a new candidate. Once they do, election officials would prepare 3 million new supplemental ballots and blot out the names of the Senate candidates on the original one. Absentee votes would count for Coleman but not for Wellstone, according to state law.

Voters who cast absentee ballots for Wellstone would be permitted to go to the polls on Nov. 5 and vote for the new Democratic nominee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/10/27/mondale-likely-to-yield-to-pleas-to-run-for-senate/61f532e4-2b54-415c-9385-f15e05cd5243/

Makes sense: There is no guaranty that someone who filled out an absentee ballot for Wellstone while he was alive would vote for Wellstone if he were dead. Nor is there any guaranty that a voter who voted for Wellstone while he was alive intended his or her vote to go to Mondale.