Federal Election Commission Publishes 2008 Election Returns Book

The Federal Election Commission has just released its book, “Federal Elections 2008”, which has election returns for President and Congress. There is no publication that takes greater pains to capture write-in votes. Even Congressional Quarterly’s “America Votes” doesn’t include, for example, the Rhode Island November 2008 presidential write-ins. Rhode Island is one of the states that doesn’t have a write-in declaration of write-in candidacy form, so the state tallies all write-ins. The book reveals that in Rhode Island, Hillary Clinton received 655 write-ins, and Ron Paul received 472 write-ins.

Copies of the book are free and are available from the FEC, phone 800-424-9530.


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Federal Election Commission Publishes 2008 Election Returns Book — 12 Comments

  1. Write-ins candidates’ names aren’t printed on the ballot. Most states only count write-in votes for candidates who filed paperwork to have their write-ins counted. But Rhode Island doesn’t require such paperwork, so Rhode Island is one of the few states in which we can see all the write-in results.

    Another such state in November 2008 was Alabama, which also doesn’t have a write-in declaration procedure, so all write-ins were tallied. The Alabama results were Hillary Clinton 279, Ron Paul 273. Probably some write-ins were not counted. The Secretary of State told all counties to tally write-ins, but some counties did not obey.

  2. Lots of minority rule stats for all the world to see.

    UNEQUAL votes for each gerrymander area winner — i.e. each party hack U.S.A. Rep and Senator.

    UNEQUAL total votes in each gerrymander area.

    Result about 30 percent minority rule in the U.S.A. House of Reps (lowest 218 Donkey winners) and about 12 percent in the U.S.A. Senate (lowest 51 Donkey winners in 2004-2006-2008 — due to the many very small States).

    The indirect minority rule in the U.S.A. gerrymander Congress is INTOLERABLE. Same sort of 30 percent stuff in every State legislature and in many local regimes. See 1775-1776.

    P.R. NOW — before the arrogant gerrymander EVIL MONSTERS destroy the U.S.A.

    Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner.

  3. When I was an election recount observer, I found that more people voted for Mickey Mouse than voted for the “officia” write-in candidate.

    As a matter of fact, more people misspelled Mickey Mouse (even though there is a song that spells it out) than actually voted for the official write-in candidate.

    Does the Rhode Island tally include such votes?

    Peace

  4. Richard- What are the chances this book will be updated once the VA overseas votes are tallied?

  5. Rhode Island tallied eleven write-ins for Mickey Mouse.

    The only actual general election presidential candidate who wasn’t on the ballot in Rhode Island, who received write-ins there, was Alan Keyes, who got 5.

    I doubt the FEC will go to the expense of reprinting its book just to account for those upcoming 2,000 Virginia votes.

  6. The FEC may possibly do a 1 or 2 page supplement to be taped in the main volume and probably update the stats on the internet.

    How about the votes for Donald Duck, Goofy, Tom and Jerry, Barney the Dinosaur, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Superman, Batman, etc. etc. — and for the New Age — Dracula (a perfect govt officer – tax/blood sucker), Godzilla, etc. ???

    Meanwhile in reality land — the gerrymander REAL MONSTERS do their evil stuff daily for the benefit ONLY of the special interest gangs.

    P.R. and A.V.

  7. DemoRep:

    We did verify there is more than one F. Flintstone and a Michael Mouse on the voter registration rolls in Pennsylvania.

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