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Originally Posted by Platapus
While different states have different rules, in Virginia, write-in votes have almost no chance of ever passing.
In Virginia, each write-in vote has to be an exact match in order to be counted together.
Lee Oswald
Lee H Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mr. Oswald
LH Oswald
L. H. Oswald
All count as separate votes, each with one vote. If a candidate is seriously considering being a write-in candidate, they really need to advertise so that everyone knows exactly how to write in the vote. 
As an election officer, I cringed when I heard that Alaska is considering evaluating "voter intent". 
This is so wrong. It is the duty of the election officials to count the valid ballots. If a ballot is not valid, it is not valid. Introducing voter intent is a sloppy way to introduce bias and subjectivity into what should be a binary decision -- the ballot is valid or it is not. |
Great post, and true.
She's a spoil sport, frankly. She lost fair and square in the primary, they throws a fit. Same is true of any candidate of any party that switches sides or becomes an "independent" because they lost a primary. They are all weasels—which is saying something given the company they are in to start with.