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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Sun Aug 26, 2012, 12:43 PM Aug 2012

Imagine getting almost a million write-in votes for President while in Prison

Eugene Debs got 913,664 votes— 3.4% of the popular vote —in 1920 from people writing in his name.

He was in prison at the time, convicted of sedition for speaking against the WWI draft in 1918.

He did not, of course, vote for himself. He wasn't allowed to vote.

It was the second highest vote total Debs ever got for President. He got 6% of the vote as the Socialist Party candidate in 1912.

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Imagine getting almost a million write-in votes for President while in Prison (Original Post) cthulu2016 Aug 2012 OP

An analogous situation just happened with the WV Democratic primary BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #1

BumRushDaShow

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1. An analogous situation just happened with the WV Democratic primary

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sun Aug 26, 2012, 12:48 PM

Aug 2012

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/prison-inmate-wins-more-than-40-of-democratic-vote-over-president-obama-in-wv-primary/

Of course the reason was a bit different.

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