Write In Candidates

Election officials Wednesday released the names of 25 people who qualified to be write-in candidates in the recall election. To be a write-in candidate, a person must collect 65 signatures, be a U.S. citizen and be eligible to vote. There is no filing fee. The names of all certified write-ins will be posted at polling places. The write-in candidates are: * * Donnie Adlen, Democrat, Marina del Rey * Thomas "Tom" Benigno, nonpartisan, Escalon * Harry William Braun, Democrat, Pacific Beach * R.

Balloting began Tuesday in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2012 ; before the day was half over, more than 37,000 votes had been cast. Members of the free social reading site Goodreads can vote for 15 books in 20 categories. Those categories are different than most literary awards, and get highly specific. For example, a fantasy fan can vote for books in three separate categories: Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy and Young Adult Fantasy. And that doesn't include Horror, or Science Fiction, or Romance, each of which is fantastic in its own way. Another unique aspect of the Goodreads Readers Choice Awards is the inclusion of write-in candidates.

Residents will see two candidates running for city treasurer after all. Investment consultant Thomas R. Jones, 50, was officially declared a write-in candidate for the seat last week, city officials said. He will run against Paul Gudgeirsson, who was appointed acting treasurer last year after the elected treasurer, Ken Carr, retired.

The fight over whether Alaska voters will be offered lists of write-in candidates for U.S. Senate moved Saturday to federal court, where former conservative talk show host Eddie Burke and four other citizens said handing out the lists violates the federal Voting Rights Act. The lists could provide a crucial aid for incumbent Lisa Murkowski, who launched a write-in campaign to hold on to her seat after Tea Party Express-backed candidate Joe Miller...

Today is the last day to qualify as a write-in City Council candidate. Four of seven council seats are up for reelection in the Nov. 6 election. Only one write-in candidate was qualified as of Monday, city officials said. Theodie Peterson, 52, is a lawyer and teaches property law at Southern California Institute of Law. He grew up in Camarillo, worked for Atlantic Richfield Co. for several years and later was a chief litigator for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.

As county registrars around the state began processing a surge of last-minute voter registrations, state officials said Tuesday that at least 20 people had submitted signatures to run in the recall election as write-in candidates. Most of the write-in candidates are from Los Angeles County. Officials suggested that the final write-in candidate count could be as high as 30. The final list will be available today. In order to be a write-in candidate, a person must collect 65 signatures, be a U.S.

Saying there is "a critical difference between assistance in voting and assistance in who to vote for," a Superior Court judge in Anchorage has blocked the Alaska Division of Elections' attempt to provide lists of write-in candidates to voters when they go to the polls Tuesday, a big setback for the write-in campaign of incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Superior Court Judge Frank A. Pfiffner rejected the state's argument that providing a list of certified write-in candidates to voters who ask for help complies with the state's obligation to assist citizens who need help voting.

Defying the predictions of political pundits, a write-in candidate in the March 5 primary election managed to garner more votes than an Orange County judge accused of child molestation, even though the jurist's name was the only one on the ballot. With all of the county's precincts counted, Dana Point attorney John Adams beat Judge Ronald C. Kline by a little more than 1,100 votes, according to an updated tally posted Thursday.

A state appeals court said Tuesday that San Francisco voting laws must allow for write-in candidates during runoff elections for mayor or other city offices. San Francisco currently allows write-ins only during city election primaries. The race for office goes to a runoff between the top two vote vote-getters if nobody from the primary field secures a majority of the vote.

Los Angeles businessman Leonard H. McRoskey, a write-in candidate in the 23rd State Senate District, received enough votes to qualify as the official Republican candidate in the November election, putting him in a race against Assemblyman Tom Hayden (D-Santa Monica). McRoskey, 72, of Westwood, said county election officials last week told him he had received 2,555 votes. Hayden's victory in the Democratic primary over state Sen. Herschel Rosenthal by 580 votes was made official this week.

The Alaska Supreme Court late Friday cleared the way for limited distribution of write-in candidate lists in the state's U.S. Senate election, providing an important boost for incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski. But the list will contain 161 names instead of just a few, thanks in part to conservative radio talk show host Dan Fagan, who exhorted listeners Thursday to register as write-in candidates. On Friday, he was taken off the air, at least temporarily. The high court's decision could be crucial: Murkowski, who leads in some opinion polls, needs voters to spell her name reasonably correctly.

Hours after a judge blocked the Alaska Division of Elections' effort to give voters lists of write-in candidates, the state Supreme Court stayed his ruling, providing a boost for the campaign of incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The lists can be shown to voters who request them, the high court ruled, but candidates' party affiliation must be removed. The court also directed the Division of Elections to attempt to segregate absentee ballots cast by voters who have seen the lists -- an apparent preparation for legal fights over whether those ballots can be counted.

Saying there is "a critical difference between assistance in voting and assistance in who to vote for," a Superior Court judge in Anchorage has blocked the Alaska Division of Elections' attempt to provide lists of write-in candidates to voters when they go to the polls Tuesday, a big setback for the write-in campaign of incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Superior Court Judge Frank A. Pfiffner rejected the state's argument that providing a list of certified write-in candidates to voters who ask for help complies with the state's obligation to assist citizens who need help voting.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was spared her position as the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday as her colleagues declined to oust her, despite her independent campaign for reelection in Alaska after losing the Republican Senate primary last month. Murkowski had already submitted her resignation in party leadership as vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference after losing her primary in Alaska to "tea party" candidate Joe Miller.

The U.S. Senate race in Alaska was turned on its head in August, when Tea Party Express-backed candidate Joe Miller upset incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary. On Friday evening, Murkowski stunned the state again with a decision to mount a write-in campaign to hold on to her seat. "This is a statement we must make for Alaskans. Together we can do what they say cannot be done. Alaska is not fair game for outside extremists. We are smarter than that … and we will not be had," Murkowski said as cheering supporters in Anchorage shouted, "Run, Lisa, run!"

Tonia Reyes Uranga is hardly the first politician to ask for four more years. It's the way the councilwoman is going about it that's irking some in Long Beach. Reyes Uranga is supposed to be finished after eight years because of term limits. But a quirk in city law allows her to run for a third term as long as her name doesn't appear on the ballot. So last month she became the second termed-out council member in the port city to run as a write-in candidate in the April 13 election, to the chagrin of some other contenders.

With all absentee votes tallied, write-in candidate Wally Linn fell short in his bid for City Council. Incumbents Larry A. Herman and Orbrey Duke were able to fend off Linn, who received only 571 votes. Linn, a real estate broker, finished fifth behind challengers Christian Basquette and Kenneth Tipton. The candidates were competing for two four-year terms. Herman and Duke, who were ahead after the original counts, maintained their strong leads.

A write-in candidate appears to have earned a seat on the Beverly Hills School Board, county officials said Thursday after a count of write-in ballots. Businessman Barry Brucker was one of two candidates who unseated a pair of incumbents. Brucker received 1,558 write-in votes. Nearly 3,000 voters--allowed to cast ballots for two candidates--went to the polls, said Conny McCormack, Los Angeles County registrar-recorder. Century City lawyer Gerald E. Lunn Jr. won the second seat with 1,104 votes.

Backers of Orange County Democratic state Senate candidate Lou Correa have launched a last-minute write-in campaign for a Republican in an effort to peel votes from Lynn Daucher, the GOP nominee who is Correa's chief rival for the seat. Backers of write-in candidate Otto Bade include an independent campaign committee that spent nearly $200,000 to support Correa in the Democratic primary, as well as Correa donors and supporters who signed Bade's candidate petition.

At a campaign stop last week, congressional candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs asked a group of women who own businesses to vote for her twice in November: once in a special election to fill the unexpired term of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and again in the general election as the Republican write-in candidate running for the full two-year term.