The Write-In Candidate

[Note: I originally intended to post this after the election but did not have the time to do so] With all these talks of voter irregularities, I dug up this gem from the Daily Bruin about last spring's Student Bar Association elections at UCLA Law. Actually the only relevant part is:

"Write-in votes were encouraged this year to increase the competitiveness of the election, Henderson said, and on a lighter note, some voters penciled in familiar candidates like Montgomery Burns and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Other write-ins included Fat Tony, Some Other Abercrombie Drone and 'WTF is a parliamentarian? I bet we don't need one.'"

I'd PAY to see all write-in results from this past presidential election. But a quick LEXIS search reveals the bad news:

"Gov. Joe Frank Harris has signed into law a measure relieving Georgia elections officials of the chore of counting write-in votes for Mickey Mouse and other non-existent candidates.The new law stipulates that election workers will not have to count write-in votes for any candidate who fails to serve notice of his write-in candidacy at least 20 days before the election." LA Times, April 4, 1987, at A18.