West Virginia Releases Write-in Totals for Declared Write-in Candidates for President

West Virginia totals for the declared write-in presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state are: Virgil Goode 119, Roseanne Barr 31, Rocky Anderson 12, Merlin Miller 11, Tom Hoefling 5, Richard Duncan 1.


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West Virginia Releases Write-in Totals for Declared Write-in Candidates for President — 32 Comments

  1. Roseanne Barr had more votes than American 3rd Position guy! Peace and Freedom in West Virginia yes!

  2. The results are in the West Virginia Secretary of State’s certificate of ascertainment. The Secretary of State did not put it on her web page. It was e-mailed to me.

  3. I’d be interested in seeing the full results, if only because I’m working on a database of election results and I’d like it to be as complete as possible.

  4. Other write-in totals:

    Santa Claus – 33
    Robert Brown – 8
    Cam Lemley – 3
    Paul Chehade – 1
    David Crosby – 1
    John Dummett – 1
    Dennis Knill – 1
    Erin Kent Magee – 1
    Rick Rogers – 1

  5. Maryland, and almost all states that permit write-ins, only counts presidential write-ins for presidential candidates who filed a declaration of write-in candidacy. I presume there is someone somewhere who has changed his legal name to Santa Claus, and he must have filed for himself in Maryland and at least one other state (I forget which one now).

    Ron Paul was not a candidate, so obviously he didn’t file. If people had been thinking ahead, and they wanted a tally of Ron Paul write-ins in most states, they should have found some other person named Ron Paul who would file as a declared write-in presidential candidate.

  6. Yes, there is a man named Santa Claus who filed as a write-in candidate in ’08 and ’12. The only thing I know about him is that he’s a prohibitionist.

  7. He had a pretty good platform….

    “My political platform includes:

    The ten key values of the Green Party platform (www.GP.org):
    GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
    SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
    ECOLOGICAL WISDOM
    NON-VIOLENCE
    DECENTRALIZATION
    COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
    FEMINISM AND GENDER EQUITY
    RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY
    PERSONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
    FUTURE FOCUS AND SUSTAINABILITY

    ~ and ~

    Parts of Ron Paul’s “Restore America” plan (RonPaul2012.com):
    A TRUE BALANCED BUDGET IN YEAR 3
    CUT ONE TRILLION DURING FIRST YEAR
    RETURN MOST OTHER SPENDING TO 2006 LEVELS
    ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT WASTE
    ADDRESS FUTURE ENTITLEMENTS, TAXES, AND REGULATION
    AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE”

  8. Me and my gf were thinking about voting for Miller but since he did absolutely did not have a chance to win at all like Stein, Johnson, Anderson, and Goode did, we voted Goode. So we are proud to say that 2 of those 119 votes for Goode came from us.

  9. Santa Claus is a children’s rights advocate and stood down prior to the election in favour of the Green nominee. Despite that he still beat the Prohibition Party candidate nationwide.

    Ron Paul polled 0 votes since he didn’t register as a candidate. This isn’t Oklahoma or DC if a candidate wants his votes counted in West Virginia then they will be (though it may take a while)

  10. Yes I know I’m on Green Papers constantly, but when I posted that they did not have the info. Thank you to Richard Winger for emailing me!

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