According to Dave Leip’s US Election Atlas, which is still being updated as votes from the November election continue to be counted, at least 209,098 voters did not find to be acceptable any of the presidential candidates on their ballot and wrote in another choice. Some states do not allow write-in votes, or only count the votes of registered write-in candidates, so the number could actually be much higher.
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1 JimDavidson // Dec 10, 2008 at 10:51 pm
The count stands at 210,153 on that election atlas site linked above.
However, the write-ins are just one line out of many. I think many of those write-in votes were cast for people who were on the ballots in some other states. Which makes me wonder whether it is possible, yet, to break down the votes for write-ins generally into their respective candidates.
Isn’t the electoral college voting soon? One would expect write-in votes to be counted by then.
2 paulie cannoli // Dec 10, 2008 at 11:09 pm
“The count stands at 210,153 on that election atlas site linked above.”
As I said – it is still being updated.
“Isn’t the electoral college voting soon? One would expect write-in votes to be counted by then.”
Apparently, not all of them:
http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/12/08/pennsylvania-elections-department-says-write-ins-to-be-tallied-by-january-8/
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