should we elimiate ballots?

[Alcon]

During my project to compile precinct results for counties around the U.S., I have noticed that among the few counties that count individual write-ins, about 70% of the write-ins are:

GEORGE BASH
JOHN F. CAREY
RAPHL NADER
GEORGE T. BUSH

And this with the candidate name already elsewhere on the ballot.  These people were dumb enough to take the time to check "write-in" and then spell the name incorrectly.

Let's stick with this.

[Alcon]

GEORGE BASH
JOHN F. CAREY
RAPHL NADER
GEORGE T. BUSH

eh, if people do this, like the first the vote will go to George Bash and not George Bush.  If they've not been blind and living under a rock in the last 4 months, they should have the common sense to spell their names correctly.  Stupidity should discredit a vote in this case.

What if it's semi-readable?

[Alcon]

GEORGE BASH
JOHN F. CAREY
RAPHL NADER
GEORGE T. BUSH

eh, if people do this, like the first the vote will go to George Bash and not George Bush.  If they've not been blind and living under a rock in the last 4 months, they should have the common sense to spell their names correctly.  Stupidity should discredit a vote in this case.

What if it's semi-readable?

If they can make it out fine, if they can't don't bother.  People will usually have strong feelings about who they're voting for, so they'll print it out clearly.  Those who don't have strong feelings may not write so clearly, but if they'll vote isn't counted, they probably wouldn't care anyways.

What about the elderly and those with diseases such as Parkinson's?

[Alcon]

major party candidates never choose candidates with hard to pronounce names anyways because of how simple minded people can be.  It's really an unfair bias, but look at the names, how hard is it to pronounce Bush, Gore, Kerry, Clinton, Dole?  I mean even if Dennis Kucinich was a sane person with an ideology that didn't make opebo look like a moderate, he'd still loose beacuse his people wouldn't want a president who's name they have trouble pronouncing.

Kweisi Mfume?

[Alcon]

Why?

If your as libertarian as I hope you are, you should know that we have many stuggles in getting on the ballots in every state.  Once the resources are used for getting on every ballot are used, we hardly have any money to spend on ads.  However the Democratic and Republican candidates for President get free access plus something like $75 mil from the government to help with campaigns.  Heck even if we have problems, like Alcon points out, it's better than my taxpayer money going to finance John Kerry and George Bush.

When the Libertarians win automatic ballot access, the can get on the ballots for free also.

be much easier if you guys didn't hold us back.  What are you afriad of extra competition? Afraid we might appeal to more people, if they knew more about us?

Absolutely shaking in fear.