>  BA> I've been saying for thirty years that what we need is a "none 
of these 
>  BA> crooks" option on the ballot - that counts.  I read that the 
option was 
> 
> That's ok, but then they will have to hold another election, right?
> 
> What do you make of that situation I was in? Only a democrat lady - 
against
> nobody - what if only 1 person voted for her? She could have only been
> defeated by a write-in.

Ah, but the Supreme Court ruled - in 1992 - that write-in votes for 
federal elective offices (president, senate, whorehouse) don't have to 
be counted.  They actually said that not counting write-in votes does 
not disenfranchise the voters who do that.
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