New Hampshire is one of the states that allows write-in votes for president in the general election, but doesn’t have a procedure for a presidential write-in candidate to file a declaration of write-in candidacy. In recent past presidential elections, the Secretary of State has rather arbitrarily decided which candidates to tally. For instance, in November 2012, he tallied write-ins for Jill Stein and Ron Paul (who was not a declared candidate in the general election), but no one else.
This year, he tallied write-ins for any presidential candidate who requested a tally. However, many bona fide presidential candidates who were not on the New Hampshire ballot didn’t realize that if they asked for a tally, they could get one. That is why the Secretary of State tallied write-ins for Evan McMullin, but not candidates such as Darrell Castle. McMullin received 1,064 write-ins in New Hampshire.
In 2016 the Secretary of State also tallied write-ins for certain people who had run in the presidential primaries this year, but were not candidates in November and did not request a write-in tally: Bernie Sanders 4,493; John Kasich 1,365; Jeb Bush 230; Marco Rubio 136; Ted Cruz 129; Rand Paul 98; Ben Carson 83; Vermin Supreme 58; and Chris Christie 23. And he tallied write-ins for these prominent persons who did not run in any presidential primaries this year: Mike Pence 937; Mitt Romney 540; Paul Ryan 280; John McCain 127; and Joe Biden 55.
The failure to count write-ins for Darrell Castle seems unfair, because Castle filed a declaration of candidacy to get on the ballot, but didn’t appear because his petition didn’t have enough valid names. He was the only person who filed a declaration of candidacy to get on the ballot but whose petition was rejected.
I was told by the SOS office the tallied write-ins only for those who got over 10 write-in votes. I’m guessing they did not take spelling errors into account for certain candidates.
and I now see they expanded the list a bit, and despite me asking the SOS office how many write-in votes I received I see they still don’t have that tally. I know I received 4 in Keene, and I was told I received 3 in Milton.
Someone I know requested lists of write-ins from every town & city in NH, but Manchester refused to provide that information.
Chris Christie was a candidate this year.
So was Rubio.
Thank you, Leonardo and Mr. Brown. I just now fixed it.
Is there an updated state by state total for the election?
When I receive a new update from Brian Sears with a new table, it will be posted on my website, just click on my name to go to my main page.
Missouri finalized the results today, and instead of 11,503 write-in votes for Marshall Schoenke, there were only 3! Obviously there were thousands of invalid write-in votes. But out of the 7,156 valid write-in votes, Evan McMullin got 7,071.
Trump’s margin of victory narrowed by about 7,500 compared to the “unofficial election night results” that have been on the Sec. of State’s website since Nov. 9.
This link will take you to the pdf
http://sos.nh.gov/2016PresGen.aspx?id=8589963688
PS
see my above comments re what’s on the list
Was *asking for a tally* a part of the NH election L-A-W– or more dreamed up stuff by a HACK SOS ???
It was made up by the SOS.
WaunaKeegan11–when will the next update be on your website?