Last month, 2.4% of the vote for president in the District of Columbia went to write-in presidential candidates, yet the D.C. Board of Elections refused to reveal who received those write-ins. D.C. policy is not to count the write-ins for declared write-in presidential candidates unless it appears a write-in candidate might have carried the district.
It is absurd that D.C. has a policy for declared write-in candidates to file, and yet D.C. won’t count the votes. But this policy was upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2012 in Libertarian Party v D.C. Board of Elections. Two very famous judges signed that opinion: Merrick Garland and Brett Kavanaugh. Garland has since been Attorney General of the United States, and Brett Kavanaugh is one of Donald Trump’s appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Presidential candidates who filed for write-in status in 2024 are Chase Oliver, Jill Stein, Claudia De la Cruz, and Shiva Ayyadurai. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was on the ballot, but only polled .85% of the vote.
Peter Sonski also filed and they confirmed status by email but aren’t publishing the updates.
In one ward of DC in 2000 Ralph Nader of the Green Party defeated George W. Bush for second place.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=147631
BALLOT ORDER
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No ballot, no need to worry about ballot order or write ins.
I haven’t read Barr v DC Board of Elections, but I was wondering: If it’s OK not to count votes for a longshot write-in candidate, is it OK not to count votes for a longshot ballot-listed candidate? What’s the difference?
I’m so glad Donald Trump won the election!
Mass deportation gives me a massive erection!
DC presidential write-in results in one place in order:
Jill Stein 2,246
Nikki Haley 630
Claudia De La Cruz 609
Cornel West: 461
Chase Oliver: 202
Mitt Romney: 174
Peter Sonski: 128
Bernie Sanders: 92
Rashida Tlaib: 84
Randall Terry: 4
(Various Gaza-related: 545)
https://x.com/jbhenchman/status/1873839741298499786
Hey Joe, did you ever find those emails?
Lol arguable the most corrupt LP chair in history, even moreso than Sarwark. Why would anyone takes what he days seriously?
Says of course, not days.
He probably shoved them up his ass as a dildo.
LOL another pathetic showing from Chase Oliver. No luck at the gay bars apparently.
My sources tell me Chase Oliver is still at gay bars trying to sell his pee.
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?