Writing in a Republican candidate onto a Democratic ballot?

Is this possible? Well of course it's physically possible, but will it COUNT?

 

Where I live, you cannot touch your ballot- it shows behind a glass pane so that you can see it, but you cannot physically access it. The primaries may be different, though, but I'm not sure. If you call your local board of elections, they should be able to answer your main question, though they might chuckle a bit.

 

Well, if you're talking about doing that in the primary, even if you could, it wouldn't do any good, because the Republican candidates are competing against each other, and whoever gets the most votes in that party's primary in that state wins that state's delegates for that party's convention-so what you're proposing wouldn't help that candidate at all-it would just hurt his chances of winning the Republican primary in that state. It's meaningless to have a Republican on the ballot of the Democratic primary.

 

If you want to vote for a Republican in the primary then you need to vote in the Republican primary.

 

why would you want to write in a rep on a dem ticket to begin with other than to be a complete idiot

 

I took it as a way of saying "I was here to vote, and none of the candidates meet my standards." But I wasn't the one who posted the question, so that's just a guess.

A few years back, Molly Ivins wrote about her time participating in vote counts/recounts, and said something to the effect that pretty much anything that can be physically done to a ballot, someone will do to a ballot, for reasons no one could figure out. "Voters do the damnedest things," I think was her summary.

 

ah hhb wrote in his last election,,, one was mickey mouse n other was donald duck ,,,,.. :|

 

Ohhh yeah huh, I just didn't put it together that the Democratic and Republican primaries are completely separate. So I would have been trying to elect a Republican to run as a Democrat? Haha. Nevermind.

Thanks, except to dilligaf for being a meanie.

 

i wasnt bein mean i guess i shoulda have clarified tween idiot n ignorant,

neither of which is meant to be mean in any way shape or form i just tend to forget that in this day n age of all the technologies n tools we have for learning that either exists in such mass quantities....

 

Well if Mickey takes after papa Disney and is a Freemason then he would fit right in!

 

only if he is an official write in candidate.

 

That would count. As a spoiled ballot.