The District of Columbia Board of Elections has these preliminary totals for the Green Party presidential primary:
Cynthia McKinney 99
write-ins 62
no candidate 23
Jared Ball 12
Kent Mesplay 9
Howie Hawkins 7
Kat Swift 6
Jesse Johnson 5
The D.C. Green Party won a lawsuit in 2004 to force the D.C. Board of Elections to count write-ins in its presidential primary. Therefore, presumably in the next few weeks, the write-ins in this primary will also be counted.
I bet a majority of those 62 write ins are for NADER…common ralph make a run at it one more time!!!
Yeah, I’m going to guess that alot of those write-ins were for Ralph. I’m glad to see that they’ll be counted.
Any word on when we’ll get a full count of them?
I wouldn’t assume a majority of the write-in votes are for Nader. The county and city/town results I’ve seen indicate that there were also a lot of write-in votes in California and Massachusetts, where Nader was already on the ballot. I bet a good number, unfortunately, are for Barack Obama, due to the excitement he’s generating.
D.C. published a voters’ guide that included candidate statements, and Hawkins’s statement made it very clear that he was a stand-in for Nader. (Indeed, in the updated results at http://www.dcboee.org, Hawkins has an unambiguous second-place position among listed candidates.) I don’t know how widely distributed that guide was, though.
No doubt some of the write-ins are for Nader. Good thing the votes in D.C. will be counted so we can know for sure.
The turnout was awful…..less than 11% of registered Statehood Green Party voters showed up yesterday. No wonder this vote count looked so small. I wonder if many people in D.C., even among Green supporters, even knew that there was a Green primary there yesterday. I also wonder if there were any precinct irregularities as there was in Illinois regarding availability of ballots, or is that not an issue in D.C. because of the technology they use for voting?
The current count from the DCBOEE page (minus absentee and provisional ballots, which haven’t been tabulated yet) is:
Cynthia McKinney 202 41.48%
Write-ins 131 26.90% (I’m sure most of these are for Ralph Nader)
No Candidate 54 11.09%
Howie Hawkins 32 6.57%
Kat Swift 20 4.11%
Jared Ball 19 3.90%
Kent Mesplay 15 3.08%
Jesse Johnson 14 2.87%
Interesting that “no candidate” did so well, comparatively speaking.
I BELIEVE RALPH NADER IS TOPS AND IF HE GETS THE PROPER LIMELIGHT, THEY SHOULD SHOW HIS TRACK RECORD WHEN THEY ASK HIM IF HE WILL ANNOUNCE. MEDIA YOU DO IT FOR OTHERS, WHEN WILL YOU SHOW THE TRUTH FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST INSTEAD OF MONEY CORRUPT POLITICS. POLITICS BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE AND THE PUBLIC, NOT THE MEDIA. THE PEOPLE DESERVE FAIR AND PROPER COMPETITION.
THIS AUDIENCE SHOULD LOOK AT NADER’S TRACK RECORD ON http://WWW.DRAFTNADER.ORG WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY HOWIE HAWKINS OF THE GREEN PARTY SEEKING TO DRAFT HIS NOMINATION FOR THE GREEN PARTY FOR A GREAT LEADER WITH A VERY GREEN TRACK RECORD THAT CROSSES ALL PARTY LINES AND WILL ATTRACK THE MAJORITY IN NOVEMBER, BUT OH YES, THE RIGHT STUFF ABOUT THE REAL POLITICS DUE AMERICA NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
Check out http://www.draftnader.org founded by Howie Hawkins who is a placeholder in DC primary and in Illinois for The Green party nomination of Ralph Nader for President in 2008.
Nader can win, with proper fair and public interest oriented publicity, and the voters getting the proper competitive public interest comparisons.
Who offers the most?
I have my vote already “done deal.”
Nader fans know he is tops, but pushing the best forward and eliminating the dead wood is good stuff.
Nader belongs out there in front of the public, and we are waiting for the media to behave.
check CCN link on the Howie Hawkins http://www.draftnader.org site.
One more comment for those who still don’t get it….look at Nader’s track record on Howie’s site, and think of that in office as proper leadership, IF the PUBLIC wants THAT they need to realize all it takes is their vote. Not naysaying. Optimism has more value. True democracy is the public’s duty above all.
i agree with nader 2008
Eric,
The DC Green won a lawsuit that’ll guarantee that the write-ins will be counted. I’m going to bet that a majority were for Ralph, as I don’t believe most people read candidate’s statements.
Well, we’ll find out soon enough, but with write-in candidates getting 18 percent in San Francisco, 14 percent in Boston, and 27 percent in Springfield (Mass.) — all cities where Nader’s name was on the ballot — it’s clear that there are other candidates attracting the votes of enrolled Greens.