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.
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BALLOT ORDER
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HALF A TO Z
HALF Z TO A
ROTATE FIRST/LAST LETTERS
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!