Alas, most of my adult life the state of Kansas , dominated by the Republican Party for decades, has not allowed many write in votes at all at the state level. (Local towns allow it.)
This is why I encourage voters (wherever Write-In votes are legal) to consider this very option.
Here is one on-line explanation of how to do so from Pennsylvania.
According to Michael Moore's THE AWFUL TRUTH, he himself led a campaign for Write-In votes in 2000. Some people noticed the campaign, but these voters were relatively few in number.
This is true of the majority of write-in campaign due to the current U.S. political climate with Democratic Party and Republican Party dominating statehouses for over a century unchallenged by any third or alternative party.
PROJECT VOTE SMART is interested in supporting all voters, even those planning to make out write-in votes. Here is a list list of presidential candidates already registered for voters to consider.
THOUGHTS AND WARNINGS
Many of the millions of Americans voting from overseas, including U.S. military personnel, often have to physically write in our votes and mail them in before election day each year.
Why is this?
Well, the major reason is that most states, counties and cities in the USA are slow in responding to requests for overseas ballots. Therefore, come October, we quite often need to write in our votes for U.S. Senate, Congress and President/Vice President by hand in a ballot form--provided online or available from our local U.S. Embassy.
In short, over the past few decades, I (and American ex-pats around the planet) have regularly had to do a Write-In vote for these national offices.
Prior to 2000, the horrible nasty national secret that most overseas ballots were not counted became public knowledge. In short, until after that election many write-in ballots from ex-pats around the world were never counted.
In closing this article, I need to refrain that Write-In balloting is hard to monitor from overseas, however, those of you in the U.S. have a lot of opportunity to be more vigilant.
Go, please, to your polling places and see that the WRITE-IN and overseas votes--and other important early ballots--are counted and not thrown out!
We overseas voters, thank you for your help.
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