~ Can a Write-In Candidate Win the Texas Governorship? ~
The following are excerpts from a blog post that describes how some Debra Medina supporters are taking the liberty, small government, sovereignty campaign, which was waged in the Texas Republican Primary, into the general election. By selecting a bold write-in candidate to take the baton from Debra and continue the race, this group aspires to making political history. Debra Medina collected 18.5% of the vote in the primary. Before the Glenn Beck fiasco, she was polling at 24%. If, in the General Election, a new Medina-style candidate can pick up an additional 14%, and Rick Perry and Bill White split the remaining vote (Perry only leads White at this point by 6% and the margin of error is 4.5%), then the write-in candidate will WIN!
Many people are inclined to think that a write-in candidacy is guaranteed to fail. If they are only thinking of the ordinary, run-of-the-mill, write-in vote, which is not backed by a WELL-ORGANIZED effort to mobilize the electorate en masse to write in the same candidate, then they are probably right....
The WE TEXANS UNITED write-in candidate will have the surprise value of suddenly entering the race with the Medina momentum machine revving up again to spread its message using grassroots strategies. It will literally knock the Rick Perry campaign off balance, as the Perryites confront the prospective mutiny of many conservatives who see the hope of electing a governor who is not "tax and spend" or "take and fend…off” the many angry Texans, who are incensed by the current governor's shenanigans that promise only to continue to rob them of their income, property, and livelihood. And, by offering an alternative to the Perry incumbency, which is intensely disliked by so very many Texans, the WE TEXANS UNITED campaign will draw a large proportion of the more than 40% of voting-age Independents (estimated to be about 5 million Texas voters) into its campaign.
http://freedomfollies.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-write-in-cand...
WE TEXANS UNITED has a Facebook site:
Good luck Medina, another choice David Kirkland (C)
http://www.cptexas.us/kirklandbio.shtml
Write in
Ron Paul
That would be awesome.
Napolitano: "We need Ron Paul now!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k3JNRTVI0Q
i'm already a fan
and i cannot wait to become a texan- me and my dog and my boys if the courts permit...-shall join my husband- we love debra!!!
~peace
Who has heard of Citizen Deliberative Councils?
These are one of the novel methods to focus people on issues, rather than on parties and personalities, that are being discussed by WE TEXANS UNITED.
http://www.co-intelligence.org/CDCUsesAndPotency.html
It sounds
wonderful! I am not aware, however, exactly how electronic voting machines can be hacked, only that they are hackable. My question is this: Can 'write-in' votes be hacked? Could those machines still record a 'write-in' vote
as a vote for another candidate???
Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Ron Paul 2012 - The People's Choice
rEVOLution SuperPAC: http://www.revolutionpac.com/
WTP Federal Lawsuit to BAN ALL ELECTRONIC VOTING
http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2011-07-26...
Write-in Votes and Fraud
Obviously, a write-in vote must be recorded on a paper ballot, which is typically fed into a vote counting machine. So, this machine can also be programmed to change the tally just as in the case of electronic voting.
I would love to see this happen
in Texas.
If you know anyone in Texas...
...send them to the WE TEXANS UNITED Facebook site.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=341864699300