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Monday, February 14, 2011

Amusing and Interesting 2010 New York City Write-In Votes

New York City is one of all-too-few places that makes write-in vote totals publicly available on the Internet. I say all-too-few because write-in votes let you vote for whoever or whatever you want.

They don't have to be alive. They don't have to be real. It doesn't have to be a physical entity. You can even try to vote for a SQL injection

Anyway, interesting write-ins in New York City in 2010 include:

For Governor:
  • Big Bird
  • Constantine
  • Christopher Christie (Governor of New Jersey)
  • Dan Malloy (Governor of Connecticut)
  • Declined Phantom
  • Duke Nukem
  • Eternal Father & Lord
  • Full Public Funding
  • Fund Autism
  • Gay Marriage
  • God Jesus Christ
  • I Am Government Rachel E Boschey
  • I Object to No Term Limits
  • Ish Pee Pee (Unless this is actually a real person ...)
  • Lisa Murbowski (some joker referencing the write-in campaign in Alaska, intentionally misspelling Senator Murkowski's name, no doubt)
  • Norman H. Finkelstein (Ewwwwww!!!!)
  • Nuchem Rosenberg (ultra-Orthodox agitator against child abuse)
  • Pimky & the Brain
  • T. Party 
  • The Hippo at the Bronx
  • The Hoff (don't know what this is ...)
  • William Marly Tweed (a mistake for the last name of the man better known as Boss Tweed
For Senator (Schumer seat)

  • A (3 votes ...)
  • Boycott Parthed Israel! (shows the level of education and intelligence among that crowd ...)
  • D-Bag
  • Eternal Father & Lord
  • European America
  • Feisal Rauf (the imam-to-be at that controversial mosque)
  • Full Public Funding
  • Gay Marriage
  • Ham Sandwich
  • Harpo Marx
  • Ish Pee Pee (again)
  • Jeffrey Lebowski
  • Jimmy McMillan (5 votes, because the rent is too ... damn ... high)
  • King Kong
  • Lisa Murkowstz (same joker, varying) 
  • Lizard People (hell yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
  • Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God
  • Medicare for All
  • Miss Peggy
  • Mort Zucker-man (because of the spelling)
  • Noam Chousky 
  • Rachel Maddow of MSNBC
  • Ron Paul (because you gotta vote for him)
  • Single Payer
For Senator (Gillibrand seat)
  • Barack H. Obama
  • Bernard Madroff 
  • Captain Kirk
  • Caroline Kennedy (got like 18 votes under various name-spellings; guess she and her family were mad she wasn't appointed)
  • Free Palestine
  • Full Public Funding
  • HIS HOLINESS THE DALILAMA
  • Jack the Pumpkin King
  • Lady Ga Ga
  • None of the Foregoing (that's an amusing spelling)
  • RN
Other Races
  • (EXPLETIVE) Chanders (shame on New York for censoring!!!)
  • LEGAIIZE MARIIIANA
  • LEARNED HLND (if intended to be Learned Hand, amusing)
  • Lisa Munkowski (someone still having fun)
  • My Dog Karma
  • My Dog Riley
  • Non English Character (obviously it was actually some non-English character, shame on them for not letting Unicode handle it if possible)
  • Overturn Citizens United
  • Pee Wee Herman
  • Revolution
  • RX
  • Snake People 
  • Tim Lincicum
  • Bull Shit! (if they didn't censor that ...)
  • Immanuel Kant Liberal
  • Anyme But
  • Tony Soprano
  • Axl Rose
  • Comeone Qualifid 
  • Fiscus Tree
  • Fuhrer Williamsburg (heh)
  • Pupa Rabi (this was for Supreme Court, so maybe they want his Beit Din?)
  • Rabbi Judu Levin (please let this not have been an attempt to vote for Yehuda Levin ...)
  • Bernard Goetz
  • Biggie Smalls
  • Bono the Boston Terrier
  • Butt Head
  • Dick Hertz
  • Dick Hurtz
  • Frank Zappa
  • MR. X
  • OBI-WAN-KENOBI
  • RON JEREMY
  • SCUM
  • THE PEOPLE
  • YODA
  • SCREW GARY ACKERMAN (for Ackerman's seat in Congress)
  • Kodos (Don't blame him/her!)
  • George Habash (seriously??? And yet no votes for Meir Kahane?????)
  • George Orwell
  • Grimm
  • TRANNY NAMED KRISTEN
  • LORD VOLDEMORT
  • JUDGE REINHOLD (to be a judge, of course)
  •  
  • LIZARD PEOPLE (3 votes, hell yes I loves NYC)
  • NO SMOKING
  • NO LAWYERS
  • NOT HER
  • OFF THE PIG
  • ROBERT DROP THE STUDENTS (was this an attempted SQL injection; I hope so ...)
  • YASSER ARAFAT
  • XENA QUEEN OF AMAZON
  • YO MAMA!
  • FIDEL CASTRO
  • BOGIE LOWENSTEIN (From 10 things I hate about you, unless it's actually a real name)
  • ADOLF HITLER (Okay, not so amusing)
  • 8 BALL
  • AMANDA HUGNKISS
  • HEYWOOD JABLOME
  • HORSETHIEF
  • JACK KINGHOFF
  • LORD SCROTUMNUS 
  • MARIO BROS
  • MATZO BALL
  • MIKE HUNT
  • SPONGE BOB
  • SQUEAKY THE CAT
  • UNDER DOG
  • VOLTRON
  • YOSEMITE SAM
  • HIGG S. BOSON
  • JOEL TEITELBAUM (But why no votes for Schneerson???)
  • WILLIAM LLYOD GARRISON
  • ANTI-MCMAHON B/C HE VOTED AGAINST H.C. BILL
  • I SMOKE I VOTE
  • INANIMATE CARBON ROD
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