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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Last Minute Write-in Candidate for US President
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.061952.28530@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 06:19:52 GMT
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- stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu (Stephen Jascourt) writes:
- >In article <adams.721935594@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>Illinois has a solution for this already....if you write someone in, you
- >>are supposed to list their address on the ballot with the vote....
- >>
- >> Steve Adams "Space-age cybernomad" Fax: (312) 329-3558
- >
- >Ron Daniels got several thousand votes in Illinois and I doubt any of them
- >knew his address. Those votes did officially count. He was a write-in
- >candidate (he was not on the ballot in Illinois).
- >
- >What are the instructions for writing in candidates on the Illinois ballot?
- >Maybe they use such a tactic to discourage people from using the
- >write-in vote, though they count the vote even if you don't include the
- >address? Or is the address only for local (municipal) offices and part of
- >a local, not state, law?
-
- Note that the following is *NOT* legal advice. I merely took advantage
- of the resources available to law students to find the appropriate section
- of the Illinois state laws, and then did a quick visual scan to try to
- find the relevant sections. If you actually need to know for sure how things
- work in Illinois, ask an Illinois attorney or spend an afternoon at your
- local law library. I did *NOT* do a thorough search, nor did I look for
- any court rulings interpreting the statutes that I found.
-
- Anyway, it appears that you don't just write someone in in Illinois. To
- become a write-in candidate, the person must be registered before the
- election (I believe you have until the Friday before the election to
- register). Registering seems to consist of just filing a notarized
- affidavit with the proper official. People can then write your name in
- and it will be counted.
-
- I would guess that Ron Daniels was so registered.
-
- A quick look at a couple of other state's statutes seemed to reveal
- similar procedures.
-
- --Tim Smith
-