West Virginia Releases Write-in Totals for Declared Write-in Candidates for President
December 21st, 2012West Virginia totals for the declared write-in presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state are: Virgil Goode 119, Roseanne Barr 31, Rocky Anderson 12, Merlin Miller 11, Tom Hoefling 5, Richard Duncan 1.
December 21st, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Roseanne Barr had more votes than American 3rd Position guy! Peace and Freedom in West Virginia yes!
December 21st, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Results for non-ballot qualified candidates? Where is this available?
December 21st, 2012 at 12:36 pm
The results are in the West Virginia Secretary of State’s certificate of ascertainment. The Secretary of State did not put it on her web page. It was e-mailed to me.
December 21st, 2012 at 12:49 pm
I’d be interested in seeing the full results, if only because I’m working on a database of election results and I’d like it to be as complete as possible.
December 21st, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Richard, do you know the write-in results for WV Gov and Senator?
December 21st, 2012 at 2:48 pm
#5, no, I didn’t ask, and now the office is closed.
December 21st, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Other write-in totals:
Santa Claus – 33
Robert Brown – 8
Cam Lemley – 3
Paul Chehade – 1
David Crosby – 1
John Dummett – 1
Dennis Knill – 1
Erin Kent Magee – 1
Rick Rogers – 1
December 21st, 2012 at 5:09 pm
what about ron paul write-ins?
well regardless ron paul has got my votein 2016.
Support ron paul 2016 click here: http://www.ronpaul16.com/please-run-for-president-in-2016/
December 21st, 2012 at 5:18 pm
He’s not going to run against Rand Paul, who is almost certainly going to be running.
December 21st, 2012 at 5:20 pm
what about ron paul write-ins?
Good question. Hard to believe there were zero.
December 21st, 2012 at 5:35 pm
@9 Rand paul is not going to run agianst ron paul who is almost certainly going to be running in 2016.
http://www.ronpaul16.com/please-run-for-president-in-2016/
December 21st, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Maryland, and almost all states that permit write-ins, only counts presidential write-ins for presidential candidates who filed a declaration of write-in candidacy. I presume there is someone somewhere who has changed his legal name to Santa Claus, and he must have filed for himself in Maryland and at least one other state (I forget which one now).
Ron Paul was not a candidate, so obviously he didn’t file. If people had been thinking ahead, and they wanted a tally of Ron Paul write-ins in most states, they should have found some other person named Ron Paul who would file as a declared write-in presidential candidate.
December 21st, 2012 at 6:20 pm
@11 Well if I was a betting man….
December 21st, 2012 at 6:21 pm
…yes, I’d take your money then.
December 21st, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Yes, there is a man named Santa Claus who filed as a write-in candidate in ’08 and ’12. The only thing I know about him is that he’s a prohibitionist.
December 21st, 2012 at 6:55 pm
That’s it. Who’s got a thousand bucks for me to go down to the courthouse and change my name to Ron Paul? I’ll do it!
December 21st, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Here is Santa Claus’s campaign website, apparently he withdrew late in the race and endorsed Jill Stein.
http://www.santaclausforpresident.com/aboutus.html
December 21st, 2012 at 6:58 pm
He had a pretty good platform….
“My political platform includes:
The ten key values of the Green Party platform (www.GP.org):
GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
ECOLOGICAL WISDOM
NON-VIOLENCE
DECENTRALIZATION
COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
FEMINISM AND GENDER EQUITY
RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY
PERSONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
FUTURE FOCUS AND SUSTAINABILITY
~ and ~
Parts of Ron Paul’s “Restore America” plan (RonPaul2012.com):
A TRUE BALANCED BUDGET IN YEAR 3
CUT ONE TRILLION DURING FIRST YEAR
RETURN MOST OTHER SPENDING TO 2006 LEVELS
ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT WASTE
ADDRESS FUTURE ENTITLEMENTS, TAXES, AND REGULATION
AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE”
December 21st, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Santa could’ve been a Mountain Party nominee.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Me and my gf were thinking about voting for Miller but since he did absolutely did not have a chance to win at all like Stein, Johnson, Anderson, and Goode did, we voted Goode. So we are proud to say that 2 of those 119 votes for Goode came from us.
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:00 pm
How did Dr. Jill Stein and Green Party/mountain party do?
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:03 pm
6,302 0.94% Johnson
4,406 0.66% Stein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Thank you
December 22nd, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I wonder how many people voted for, for example, Virgil Goode and didn’t count. I guess we’ll never know.
December 22nd, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Santa Claus is a children’s rights advocate and stood down prior to the election in favour of the Green nominee. Despite that he still beat the Prohibition Party candidate nationwide.
Ron Paul polled 0 votes since he didn’t register as a candidate. This isn’t Oklahoma or DC if a candidate wants his votes counted in West Virginia then they will be (though it may take a while)
December 22nd, 2012 at 5:20 pm
@2
The Green Papers website has good info.
December 22nd, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Yes I know I’m on Green Papers constantly, but when I posted that they did not have the info. Thank you to Richard Winger for emailing me!
December 23rd, 2012 at 3:21 am
Santa Claus is a monk from Incline Village, Nevada. Here is his website http://www.thesanta.im/
December 23rd, 2012 at 7:29 am
@24
Are you asking about Evan’s comment #20?
December 23rd, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Just in general.
December 23rd, 2012 at 6:48 pm
@12 — you are thinking about Montana.
December 23rd, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Of course, no way to know if Evan was one of them.