On December 22, Pennsylvania released its official returns. Carl Romanelli was credited with 645 write-ins. He was the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate who fought to be on the ballot. His true write-in total will never be known, since 23 of Pennsylvania’s counties didn’t canvass write-ins. These 23 counties include some of the most populous counties in the state. They include Centre (the county that includes State College), Erie, and Philadelphia Counties.
Other write-in totals include 217 for Marakay Rogers, the Green Party candidate for Governor; 92 for Hagan Smith, Constitution Party candidate for Governor; 143 for Russ Diamond, independent for Governor; 28 for Carl Edwards, Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate; and 19 for Tom Martin, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate.
All states have now released their final election returns. The January 1, 2007 paper edition of Ballot Access News will have state-by-state totals for each party for US Senate, US House, and gubernatorial elections.
I can’t find the write in vote totals for Allegheny County either.
This sucks.
Well, I was downtown today and visited the Elections Department. I got to peek at all the write-in votes, line by line. I’ve got a few insights. I’ll post them shortly to my blog:
http://Rauterkus.blogspot.com
Case in point: For the PA Senate District 42, where I reside, and where the un-democratic democrat challenged me — and I stepped off the ballot rather than mount up a lot of court costs — I had 14 write in votes. I campaigned to my friends and neighbors to NOT vote. I wasn’t looking for any write in votes.
Two others got more votes than me in that district, one being Micheal Diven.
But there must have been 300 to 500 others who got less than 3 votes each. Some were very original.
I looked closer at Tim Martin for US Senate and Russ Diamond for PA Governor. More at my blog.