This year, Georgia and Ohio ballots have presidential candidates on them, for whom votes will not be counted. This has never happened before in any state in the United States. In Georgia, after the ballots were printed, the State Supreme Court said the petitions for Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West were invalid. In Ohio, after the ballots were printed, the Secretary of State said Jill Stein had accidentally withdrawn. So, in both states, voters will see names on the ballot but if they vote for those names, their vote won’t be counted.
Wasn’t Ralph Nader on the Ohio ballot before he was knocked off the ballot? I recall that in Cuyahoga County his ballot position on the punch card templates had been pasted over. Were actual printed ballots reprinted?
Jim Riley, you recall correctly. We also had punch-card ballots here in Richland County. The space for Ralph Nader’s ticket was covered-up with a thin white label, that was very easy to read the bold ballot text through. This was the most amateurish ballot I have ever seen. It made it look like the ballot had been tampered with, even though I had already heard the news about Nader being “removed.” Nader was punch-hole number 6, and I went ahead and punched it anyway, just in case my “vote” might somehow be seen, in the event of a statewide manual recount. (Remember that Ohio was the swing state in 2004, and this was the very next presidential election after all of the drama around punch-card ballots in Florida after the 2000 election.) Of course, in the official election results, no votes for Nader were counted. That’s why I didn’t bother trying to select Jill Stein’s ticket this time around, despite the (ongoing?) legal case trying to get those votes to count. I cast my “vote” for the fake write-in ticket of Maya Butt-Hertz and Ivy Ben Scrood, in protest. I figure my “vote” would count the same either way (in other words, not count at all) but at least someone might get a laugh if they look at my ballot, that is, if they get the pun.
I would laugh if a stupid-ass decision by a Republican SoS in Ohio winds up flipping the state to Democrats. (And, if 1/10 of the two big takeaways in Iowa from the Des Moines Register’s final poll translate to other states? It might happen. If 1/4 translates, it very much could happen.)
Just Me, I did see one poll where Trump was only up by five points in Ohio. That seems to be a bit of an outlier, but it does track with the results of that Iowa poll, so who knows?
I just saw that the campaigns of Jill Stein, Claudia De La Cruz, and Cornel West have entered into a three-way collaborative agreement. This is basically a vote-sharing arrangement, where each candidate is urging their supporters to vote for one of the other candidate’s tickets, in states where their own ticket did not qualify for the ballot. I will note that Jill Stein is still not telling her supporters in Ohio to switch to a different ticket. The announced arrangement only applies to a select few states.
In Ohio, the ticket of Claudia De La Cruz for President and Karina Garcia for Vice President did qualify as a valid write-in ticket. Cornel West did not qualify for the ballot in Ohio, nor is he a valid write-in candidate.
It is already too late to change my vote. However, I thought that I’d put this information out there, in the hopes that someone in Ohio will see it, and vote the same way that I would have voted if this arrangement had been announced before I voted.
14-2 amdt subverted
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-top-court-cancels-extension-221850557.html
ga abs ballots
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pennsylvania-supreme-court-sides-with-gop-in-last-minute-mail-in-ballot-dispute/ar-AA1tnUU2
PA BALLOTS
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HOW MANY ABS BALLOTS RECEIVED AFTER E DAY WILL COUNT ???
SHOULD BE Z-E-R-O.
In the 2016 Primary in CA AIP there were two write-in candidates of the ballot that got more votes than all the printed candidaes. Two of the County ROV gave me the total cast of the write-in within the AIP. TRUMP got the most votes followed by Clinton as a distant second in write-in votes.
That was the main reason Trump in the general election of 2016 got the nomination from CA AIP