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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Texas Yellow Rose on October 14, 2016, 10:10:23 pm
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Texas is (has) recognized the following 13 as eligible as write-in candidates for president on the November 8th General Election ballot:
Darrel L. Castle
Scott Cubbler
Cherunda Fox
Tom Hoefling
Laurence Kotlikoff
Jonathan Lee
Michael A. Maturen
Evan McMullin
Monica Moorehead
Robert Morrow
Emidio Soltysik
Dale Steffes
Tony Valdivia
After adding the number of write-in candidates with the named presidential nominees, Republican Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein, Texans have a total of 17 official ways to cast a vote that will count.
http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/tx-will-only-count-these-13-write-in-candidates
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Think I'll write in "Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho"
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Somewhat surprised at and curious about the large number of qualified write-in candidates (and bored on a slow Friday afternoon at work *cough*) I employed my Google-fu to find the following links:
Darrell L. Castle (Constitution Party) (http://castle2016.com/)
Scott Cubbler for President (https://www.scottcubbler.com/)
Cherunda Fox for President (http://cherunda-fox.ruck.us/)
Tom Hoefling (America's Party) (http://www.tomhoefling.com/)
Laurence Kotlikoff for President (https://kotlikoff2016.com/)
Michael Maturin (American Solidarity Party) (http://www.solidarity-party.org/maturen-munoz-2016)
Evan McMullin for President (https://www.evanmcmullin.com/)
Monica Moorehead (Workers World Party) (http://www.workers.org/wwp/meet-monica-moorehead-and-lamont-lilly/)
Robert Morrow Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morrow_(Texas_politician))
Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik (Socialist Party USA) (http://www.rev16.us/)
Tony Valdivia for President (http://www.votetonyv.com/)
Where a party affiliation was mentioned, I included it in parentheses.
Robert Morrow doesn't have a campaign webpage, but I included a link to his Wikipedia entry for educational purposes.
I couldn't find a campaign webpage for Dale Steffes, but I think he might be this guy: Dale W. Steffes LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-w-steffes-803513103)
I couldn't find anything at all for Jonathan Lee. If anyone knows who he is (or has stronger Google-fu than I) please chime in.
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Tom Hoefling is a FReeper.
Support a FReeper for President - TOM HOEFLING aka EternalVigilance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2867138/posts
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Thanks for all that work, @Ghost Bear.
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Texas is (has) recognized the following 13 as eligible as write-in candidates for president on the November 8th General Election ballot:
@Texas Yellow Rose
Some years ago, when I was involved in Texas elections, I was on the Resolution Committee on election night in our county, did that 10 plus years. In those days, the counting machine in Central Counting on election night, would kick out any ballot that had a write-in on it. That ballot came to the Resolution Committee to be counted. Mickey Mouse always got the most write-in votes and we had to count those, plus Daffy Duck or any other write-in candidate.
On election night in Central Counting, there was a designated time the person running central counting, had to call the Secretary of State with the number of votes for all candidates and she had to include the write-in votes for Mickey Mouse and the others. After that call, there was another designated time to call in again with updated votes.
Finally, Texas wrote a law dealing with write-in candidates. By a certain date in late summer, all write-in candidates had to sign up with with the Secretary of State and only those write-in candidates were legal. We didn't have to count Mickey Mouse and others after that law came into effect.
So, if your county uses paper ballots and you write-in Mickey Mouse or his friends, that vote won't be counted.