Hat tip to Ballot Access News for the story.
(excerpt from) The York Daily Record
Write-ins beat candidates on ballot in some towns
In Franklintown, the mayor ran a write-in campaign and won with just one vote.
By Teresa Ann Boeckel
In a few races around York County, write-in winners edged out candidates on the ballot during the Nov. 3 election.
In Franklintown, Mayor James Adams won with 52 write-ins, beating Republican Dennis Palmer by one vote…In Yoe, tax collector Connie Crull won as a write-in, garnering 112 votes to Joan Schall’s 20…
…Voters cast more than 11,000 write-ins during the Nov. 3 election.
Here are some serious and not-so-serious write-ins for several races:
Court of Common Pleas Judge: Andrea Marceca Strong, Michael Flannelly, Bruce Blocher, John Ogden, Susan Emmons, None of the above and John Wayne.
District attorney: Stan Rebert, Edward Paskey, Anybody but Tom, Bill Graff, Charlie Robertson, Santa Claus and Christy Fawcett.
Dover Area School District: Holy Ghost, God, and The Messiah.
Central York School District: Michelle Obama, No more tax increases and Cut taxes
Hallam borough council: Buck, my cat; Ella, my cat; Ginger, my cat.
Infighting and factionalism is also happening in the two major parties, even though both are in denial.
“Please stop the infighting and factionalism. —–
Kimberly”
I mean look how widely successful [NOT!] it has been for the [so called] reform movement! P1992 almost 20% Perot, P2008 a TOTAL of almost 500 votes!
To Morgan and TPR:
Please stop the infighting and factionalism.
😉
Kimberly
Screw Zim, you should write in Gir.
If I decide to vote next year, I’m going to write-in “Invader Zim” for governor. Ha. 😀
Quite often, write-in votes do not get reported or counted in Pennsylvania. That makes it difficult when you do not have statewide ballot access to gauge support of write-in candidates.
When I have done recanvassing/recounting in Suffolk County (several years ago) I actually saw things like: “Peace” “Capitalism Sucks” etc.
The one that got “us” coverage in the newspaper (of course, not with our names or associations) was when our friend Wendy wrote in “Minnie The Cat” the same year that Giuliani was a write-in. So, Minnie got in the daily newspaper in a story about Giuliani and other write-ins.
Back in November, someone wrote in Charlie Emanuel (the Phillies’ manager) at a precinct near me and there were a bunch of writeins for Hillary and Ron Paul.
The Dover Area School District votes are telling due to the court ruling against intelligent design a few years back.
I recall seeing some write-in votes from my county not long ago where Mickey Mouse got three votes, although all were spelled differently. None of them were reported, of course.
Looks like there was some kind of cat coalition in Hallam…
As a write-in candidate in 2008 that qualified for the printed ballot for congress this is cheering news.
Thane Eichenauer
2008 Libertarian party candidate for Arizona’s first congressional district
http://libertariansolution.tk/