Ron Paul Write in Campaign

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  • jejstover
  on Sep. 30, 2008 at 10:30 AM

• Be sure to check with your State Board of Elections first and ya might want to check out the following thread as well: Can Ron Paul Run as a Write-in Candidate for President? Not in Illinois! Not in Most States!

  Jan

                           

  
  

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  • joyfulmama
  on Oct. 3, 2008 at 8:22 AM

• This is a foolish proposal.  Write-ins must register as write-ins or they will not be counted.  Ron Paul did not register himself as a write-in so any vote for him would indeed be a wasted vote.

  Trina 

  

  Joyful Wives and Mamas

  Think Outside the Bottle

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  • casie1124
  on Oct. 3, 2008 at 8:28 AM

• Would be a good idea if the your vote would actually count. In most states it won't. There are two election laws (in most not all states) that prohibit this. One being in most places someone has to register as a write in candidate, and two a lot of states have laws that say if a person runs for their parties nomination and does not receive it they can't be a write in candidate. Be sure to consult with your board of elections, otherwise it may cancel out your ballot completely.
  

  

  

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  • lorililly
  on Oct. 4, 2008 at 10:36 AM

• do it anyways
  

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  • joyfulmama
  on Oct. 7, 2008 at 8:16 PM

• What is the point of this?  If your vote is not even counted who does that benefit?  You will not be promoting Liberty by wasting your vote that way.
  

  Quoting lorililly:
  
  

  do it anyways

  
  

  Trina 

  

  Joyful Wives and Mamas

  Think Outside the Bottle

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  • carriekmomof1
  on Oct. 27, 2008 at 12:06 PM

• I have to agree with this. If you know your vote won't be counted, it's as good as staying home and not voting. May as well save your gas, if that's the case.
  

  Quoting joyfulmama:
  
  

  What is the point of this?  If your vote is not even counted who does that benefit?  You will not be promoting Liberty by wasting your vote that way.
  

  Quoting lorililly:
  
  

  do it anyways

  
  

  
  

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  • shalonsmom
  on Oct. 29, 2008 at 2:41 PM

• you say what will it help? perhaps it might wake up our officials that we are getting stronger every day against their bullshit tactics and that we want to go back to making the vote count.

  it might make the rest of america note that most of us women are sick and tired of the government being run by money money money and those who are corrupt already.

  Mr Ron Paul should be our president, he deserves it, but he would not allow big money to corrupt him.  If we all write in Ron Paul - it will make America take note that voters are sick and tired of the candidates they are given to vote for if nothing else.

  If our vote won't count anyway then just going out and voting for someone who we feel deserves to run this country will start a stir that might do some good eventually - its called planting a seed.

   

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  • carriekmomof1
  on Oct. 29, 2008 at 7:01 PM

• Ok, so I did a little searching and found this:

  http://www.smartvoter.org/2008/11/04/ca/la/president.html
  

  Ron Paul Becomes Qualified as Write-In Candidate in California

  President

  President/Vice President of the United States

  • Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente, Green
  • Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)
  • Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
  • Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
  • Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales, Peace and Freedom
  • John McCain/Sarah Palin, Republican
  • Alan Keyes/Wiley S. Drake, Sr., American Independent
  • Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian
  • James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in) 
  • Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Democratic

  Here is further proof that he is now a write-in candidate for California.
  

  http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/election_2008/certified_list_of_candidates_writeins.pdf

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