According to this Los Angeles Times article of November 6, California still has 1,600,000 uncounted ballots. There are hundreds of thousands not counted yet in Oregon and Washington.
According to this Los Angeles Times article of November 6, California still has 1,600,000 uncounted ballots. There are hundreds of thousands not counted yet in Oregon and Washington.
Well I hope these 1,600,000 outstanding ballots push Nader over the 700,000 vote total.
I wonder if with that many ballots still out there in California if Mckinney can catch Baldwin or not
Not likely, since Baldwin write-ins in many populous states have yet to be tallied. Nader will also get a boost when Texas, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina get around to tallying write-ins. In 2004, when Nader was less popular than he was in 2008, he got 14,517 write-ins from those 4 states.
Could this change the results of Proposition 8?
Do you really think Nader was more popular this year than in 04 or perhaps the Democrats didn’t sabotage his campaign. I mean Nader went from nearly 100,000 votes in NY and is down to 38,000 this election cycle. It seems to me that the Democrats after 04 felt that Nader was marginalized and didn’t bother to bog him down this year because either Nader was better organized to fight them or that it wasn’t worth the time.
Or they felt that they had a bigger lead against the GOP this time.
Or maybe they realized that by fighting him, they were giving him more publicity, which increased his popularity, which gav him more votes.
Yes, hopefully there will be a lot more votes for McKinney and Nader.
I’m just hoping all of those votes are NO on Prop 8, so at least this nation will make some progress somewhere.
There have been zero write in ballots tallied in California. I believe the Secretary of State here has until December 2 to certify the vote.
Chuck Baldwin, Frank Moore, James Harris and Ron Paul were all certified write in candidates in California.
Nader received 465,650 votes in 2004, and will probably hit 730,000 in 2008. The reason for his sharp decline in New York between 2004 and 2008 is because he was the Independence nominee in 2004, which put him 3rd on the ballot. In 2008, since he wasn’t the nominee of any qualified party, he was on the very bottom of the ballot, sharing a column or a row with Bob Barr. Ballot design is extremely important for determining how many votes minor party and independent candidates get. Many voters probably couldn’t even find Nader’s name on the New York ballot of 2008.
Considering how close some of the ballot initiatives are, well under that number, the SoS better tally them, especially since they might include the absentee ballots like mine.
And I agree with Ron and Jason too.
Nader also saw a drop in Florida from 2004 and I do agree that the placement has some influence. For example a neigbhbor came to me knowing I’m a Nader supporter saying they wanted to choose him but did not see him on the ballot. I got so frustrated since Nader was towards the bottom and there were 13 candidates this time so he was not easy to spot.
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