Orange County, California’s elections division has their own website and have release write-in totals. California, as a whole, has not yet released write-in totals, so this is the first glimpse into the larger results for write-ins.
Write in votes in Orange County, California:
Chuck Baldwin: 373 votes, 0.0%
Ron Paul: 3118 votes, 0.3%
If these results are accurate, then Ron Paul recieved more votes, as a write-in, than Cynthia McKinney, who was on the ballot, and almost as many as Alan Keyes, who was also ballot-listed.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Trent Hill // Nov 28, 2008 at 3:14 am
I believe there are 58 counties in CA. If this result held, Paul would recieve 180,000+ votes. He wont, of course. Orange County is notoriously Libertarian/Conservative and Paul undoubtedly had help from the OCRegister, who publicized Paul’s being an official write-in candidate in CA. Elsewhere in CA will be less conservative/libertarians and it would’ve been less known that he was a write-in option.
Baldwin, using the same math, would recieve 21,600+ votes—which I seriously doubt. I’d bet Paul recieve in excess of 20,000 votes and Baldwin recieves roughly 5000.
2 Ross Levin // Nov 28, 2008 at 11:53 am
Were there any other write-ins?
3 paulie cannoli // Nov 28, 2008 at 11:59 am
Each county has them separately, the statewide list will not be ready til I believe Dec. 13. Some other states already have theirs, but not all. Some states are just refusing to count the write-ins, even though they were for registered write-in candidates.
Alabama published an 800 page book online showing every individual write-in, but with no statewide tabulation. If you want the numbers, you can download the book (28 meg) and count them yourself. Genius!
4 paulie cannoli // Nov 28, 2008 at 12:27 pm
http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/11/26/6th-circuit-issues-excellent-opinion-on-need-to-treat-all-voters-equally/
“This year, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Maine, and the District of Columbia, are all refusing to count valid write-in votes cast for presidential candidates who filed declarations of candidacy. Lawsuits ought to be filed against these jurisdictions.â€
Alabama’s is here:
http://sos.state.al.us/downloads/election/2008/general/statecert-2008-general-election-11-25-2008-complete.pdf
warning: 783 pages and 27.56 megabytes, and the write-in appendix starts on page 118.
Also see:
http://cottagehomegrown.blogspot.com/2008/11/was-your-vote-even-counted-in-2008.html
and:
http://cottagehomegrown.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-inside-look-at-marion-countys.html
5 Bill Lussenheide // Nov 28, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Orange County has counted its write in votes for the Baldwin Ticket. Extrapolating this total amount out based on Chucks total as a percentage of McCain voters, and Chucks total vs Bob Barr’s totals, and OC’s population vs the state of California in total, will equal aproximates 8.28 times the Orange County write in total.
Thus…The Baldwin ticket will receive approximately 2,677 votes in California.
This is a great total for a write in candidate, and was hurt by Ron Pauls write in campaign, which will get about 24,000 here in California. Im positive that at least several thousand of those would have went to Chuck Baldwin otherwise.
Nonetheless, our state, California, still will ranked 26th out of 50 when all is said and done, and we will have BEATEN 14 states that DID have ballot access! Here are the state by state results…
MICH 14,759
OH 12,105
UT 11,131
WA 9,336
MO 8,190
TN 8,160
IL 8,135
FL 7,915
OR 7,691
VI 7,461
SC 6,827
MN 6,787
CO 5,872
TX 5,708
MA 5,023
WI 5,022
ID 4,747
KY 4,670
IA 4,445
AL 4,300
KS 4,051
ARK 3,894
MD 3,759
NV 3,191
NEB 2,943
CA 2,677
LA 2,581
WV 2,450
MISS 2,441
SD 1,895
AL 1,652
NM 1,586
AZ 1,371
GA 1,231
ND 1,199
WY 1,192
IND 1,024
HI 1,013
RI 675
DEL 626
VT 480
CT 287
NH 226
6 pdsa // Nov 28, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Here’s some election totals out of Nevada, and posted on the State Attorney General’s Official Website.
2008 Official Statewide General Election Results – November 4, 2008
Barrack Obama – 55.15% – 533,736
John Mccain – 42.65% – 412,827
None Of These Candidates – 0.65% – 6,267
Ralph Nader – 0.64% – 6,150
Bob Barr – 0.44% – 4,263
Chuck Baldwin – 0.33% – 3,194
Cynthia Mckinney – 0.15% – 1,411
Active Voter Registration by Party
Democrat – 531,317
Republican – 430,594
Non-Partisan – 183,589
Independent American – 47,967
Libertarian – 6,776
Other (All Others) – 3,976
Green – 3,349
Natural Law – 193
Total – 1,207,761
The Active Voter Registration data actually under-reports the total number of real voters by a fairly significant margin, but not a big as the over-reporting of all registered voters does. The largest county and most populated in Nevada, Clark, is basically the Las Vegas Metropolitan area has over half of the whole state population living in it. Las Vegas is also a very transient community. This is not necessarily just resident who move in and out of the state, but also persons who move often from place to place within the area. A Nevada Inactive voter is officially defined:
The state make it fairly easy for residents who are listed as inactive voters to vote without being considered a provisional ballot. Anyone listed as an inactive voter who provides valid state issued ID with the registered name on it is allowed to at least vote for any state-wide candidate. If their move stayed within the same voting precinct, they get the whole ballot for that precinct. If they have moved out of their previously noted precinct, they do not get to vote in any poll of a district that has changed with their move. You must have filed a valid change of address form with a registrar of voters to do that.
On comparing the actual presidential votes received by candidates with the number voters registered in each party, one glaring fact stands out.
The Independent American Party is listed as having 47,967 active registered members statewide in it. It is the third largest 4th largest registered category in Nevada, after the Democrats, the Republicans and non-partisans. Yet The Independent American Party’s official presidential candidate, Chuck Baldwin, only received a total of 3,194 statewide. I believe this is very strong evidence that many Nevadans who are registered as Independent Americans, believe that they have instead registered as being non-affiliated with any party. Nevada’s IAP is surely aware of this, and many of them make loud pronouncements that they possess a higher than average honesty quotient, because of their strongly held, and loudly worn upon their sleeve, Christian beliefs. Funny how they care little about taking deceptive advantage of understandable voter confusion that is a function of their party’s name.
7 citizen1 // Dec 3, 2008 at 5:40 pm
The CT total is 302 for Baldwin.
8 paulie cannoli // Dec 3, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Ballot Access News blog has a bunch of states write-ins up today.
9 Ms. Know // Dec 5, 2008 at 2:57 pm
People who played around and wrote in a candidate that wasn’t running or didn’t exist is the reason the country is now being led by the socialist illuminati.
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