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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Vote for President
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 16:49:31 EDT
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My wife wants to vote for Bill the Cat, but will not unless she can
be assured that such votes are counted and listed along with the
other minor candidates. This brings to mind a gripe I had regarding
this area. Some years ago, I tried to find out how many people
had voted for "Pat Paulsen" and for the other such "irregular"
write-in humorous or bizarre candidates. I could not. Digging through
the reference material in the main St. Louis public library would
disclose no more detail than an "other" category.

Does anyone out there know where the real and detailed vote counts
for national elections can be found? I want something that breaks
it down to listing ALL the minor party candidates, and any write-ins
who get at least 10 votes or so. (I suppose there are a bunch of
people who write in their own name; that's who should be listed
as "other"!) I would think that there would be many political
scientists or sociologists who could use such data for research
or theses; it must be available SOMEWHERE! But where?

Will Martin

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