calling eth_call on contracts doesnt work

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Steps to reproduce

curl -X POST \
  http://localhost:8545/ \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
	"jsonrpc":"2.0",
	"method":"eth_call",
	"params":[{
 		"to": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000002",
 		"data":""

	}, "latest"],
	"id":8
}'

gives

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 8,
    "result": null
}

expected

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 8,
    "result": "0xe3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855"
}

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