Michigan Releases Write-in Totals

November 26th, 2012

On November 26, the Michigan Secretary of State released official election results, including write-in totals for President. Gary Johnson was credited with 7,774 write-ins, the highest number of write-ins ever recorded in Michigan for a presidential candidate in November. The previous record had been Ralph Nader in 1996, who was credited with 2,322 in Michigan.

Michigan did not permit write-ins for president in the general election until 1964, when the Prohibition Party won a lawsuit in the State Supreme Court on that subject.

The other write-ins presidential candidates in Michigan received this number of write-ins: Stewart Alexander, Socialist, 89; Jerry White, Socialist Equality, 68; Tom Hoefling, American’s Independent Party, 42. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this information.

15 Responses to “Michigan Releases Write-in Totals”

  1. Jed Siple Says:
    November 26th, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    That’s a pretty great total! Does this move him to 1.00% nationally or still at 0.99%?

  2. :-) Says:
    November 26th, 2012 at 10:41 pm

    w00t. At least Michigan did the right thing and actually counted/credited the votes. Major hats off to you, MI.

    Congrats to Gary for the good total! :)

  3. :-) Says:
    November 26th, 2012 at 10:41 pm

    Oh, and the LP should have a new slogan…

    WE ARE THE .99%!

    :P

  4. El Chupacabra Says:
    November 27th, 2012 at 7:06 am

    How many popular votes that make for Johnson so far?

  5. richardwinger Says:
    November 27th, 2012 at 7:42 am

    Every day the popular vote changes as more and more votes are counted. I’ll put the latest figures in the Dec. 1 2012 paper Ballot Access News, but all figures won’t be final until mid-December. Most states still haven’t finished their official count.

  6. El Chupacabra Says:
    November 27th, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    Yes, but I’m still curious, if anyone is keeping a running total.

  7. Casual Bystander Says:
    November 27th, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    @6…

    http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/

  8. Jed Siple Says:
    November 27th, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    There are also great state-by-state totals at thegreenpapers.com

  9. Arthur C. Barker Says:
    November 27th, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    @6 and 7 –

    Richard pointed out this link to Wikipedia earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012 It’s an extensive article on the 2012 Presidential elecions. If you scroll way down to a table included, it will give the latest figures they have from a running total. Gary Johnson and Jim Gray currently show 1,266,324 popular votes or 0.99% of the total. Figures for several of the other alternative candidates are also shown.

  10. El Chupacabra Says:
    November 28th, 2012 at 6:42 am

    Thanks!

  11. Demo Rep Says:
    November 28th, 2012 at 10:21 am

    NOT mentioned in the wiki –
    The E.C. system is one more EVIL ANTI-Democracy gerrymander system.

    Obama de facto got elected by about 29 percent of the total popular votes — in the States/DC with the lowest Obama popular votes/EC votes ratios.

    More of the same will at the moment happen again in 2016 — IF any Democracy somehow survives the next 4 years of monarchy / oligarchy *mandate* machinations in D.C.

  12. M Carling Says:
    November 28th, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    As of today, Gary Johnson’s count works out to 0.992%. The percentage is still climbing a little bit every day and will probably continue to do so for the next two weeks.

  13. Dale Manning Says:
    November 28th, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Given the simple fact of limited exposure, the response received could easily make him our next president and all issues raised by him are now in the limelight! :)

  14. Larry West Says:
    November 29th, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    Wasn’t Roseanne Barr a qualified write-in candidate in Michigan? Did she not get any votes at all?

  15. Richard Winger Says:
    November 29th, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    #14, no, she wasn’t a qualified write-in in Michigan.