What about the write-ins?

Saturday, Nov 11, 2000

I'm working on another telling visualization of the ballot data, when I had a thought: With so many confused voters, it's likely that at least a handful opted to write in their candidate instead of risking making an incorrect vote.

If someone voted for Gore as a write-in, would that have been tabulated yet? With all we're hearing about machine-counting and the reluctance to hand-count, I would guess the answer is no.

This would seem to affect all ballots in close elections. I wonder what the regulation is if someone submits a write-in for someone who is actually on the ballot?

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