The Pennsylvania state elections office has released partial write-in totals from the November 2008 presidential election. The state office only tabulated write-ins for Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, and Chuck Baldwin. Clinton received 4,724; Paul 3,527; Baldwin 986; others 8,180.

Only 49 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties reported any write-ins, which means the other 18 counties, including Philadelphia, unlawfully ignored them. Thanks to Blyden Potts for retrieving these returns. Pennsylvania is the only large state which doesn’t have a law requiring write-in candidates to request that their write-ins be counted. Thus, in theory, all write-ins are valid in Pennsylvania and all ought to be counted. It is likely that anyone who wants to find a partial total for other presidential candidates, such as Cynthia McKinney, could spend additional time looking at the returns sent in by each county to Harrisburg, and could pull out more votes from the 8,180 “other” category.