The only four presidential candidates who filed for write-in status in Illinois this year are candidates who were not on the ballot in any state. Illinois has very cumbersome procedures for filing as a declared write-in for any statewide office. Unlike any other state, Illinois provides that candidates must file with each county. Consequently, presidential candidates who weren’t on the ballot in Illinois, but who were on the ballot in certain other states, simply skipped Illinois. Therefore, there are no Illinois write-in results for Alan Keyes, or Brian Moore, or Roger Calero, or Charles Jay, or Gloria La Riva (La Riva didn’t file for write-in status in any state).
The four who did file are Frank Moore, Ronald G. Hobbs, Donald K. Allen, and (in one county only), a Ron Paul slate. Frank Moore got two in Cook County and one in Lake County. Allen got one in Peoria County, one in DuPage County, and one in Cook County. Hobbs got 3 in Cook County and one in Marion County. The Ron Paul elector slate got one in Pope County. Probably the people who filed it, only filed in that one small county.
It would be beneficial if Illinois would change its write-in filing law, to provide that a write-in candidate for statewide office only needs to file with the State Board of Elections. It is absurd to force such candidates to file in each county in which they wish their write-ins to be counted. Illinois has 102 counties.
They should change the write-in procedure laws.
Believe me, I know it is a very cumbersome process,when Randy Stufflebeam ran as a write -in for governor in 2006 as the constitution party candidate we had to mail or personally deliver to each and every county(102)a signed and Notarized declaration then we also had 7 city(home rule)jurisdictions to file with.For a total of (109),then of course all county`s did not count the write-ins,or claimed they never received the declaration in the mail.and of course unless you have a lot of money to sue them,you are screwed.Randy still got 19,020 write-in votes,a record in Illinois
Ron Paul got my vote in Pennsylvania. Too bad the country is in freefall with monetary system disintegrating, with a new world order chipping, tracking and harvesting us.