[EM] Can Writeins ever win

[bql at bolson.org]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Dave Ketchum wrote:

> Pretty rare, but confusion made it happen near here last year:
>
> Came deadline for petitions, and there were none, for the candidates had been 
> given a wrong date.
>
> So EVERY voter had to writein to vote for their choice for that office.

There was a recent race in San Diego, CA where a write-in candidate won by 
the vote count but was then disqualified by a judge on some technicality 
of paperwork. Of course that's just THE MAN keeping us down, eh?

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/