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West Virginia totals for the declared write-in presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state are: Virgil Goode 119, Roseanne Barr 31, Rocky Anderson 12, Merlin Miller 11, Tom Hoefling 5, Richard Duncan 1.

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The Virginia State Board of Elections says the following declared write-in presidential candidates received these votes: Rocky Anderson 76, Jill Reed 14, Sheila Tittle 1, Joseph Glean 4. These results are not posted on the Virginia State Board of Elections’ web page. Some news sources that report vote totals will therefore not be aware of these votes.

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On December 14, West Virginia and California state elections officials finished tallying the votes, so now all results are in, except that Alaska, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming have not tallied any write-ins for any presidential candidates (although some of those states have tallied the total number of presidential write-ins). Read more »

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Rocky Anderson, the former Democratic Mayor of Salt Lake City, and the founder and 2012 presidential nominee of the progressive Justice Party, has definitively ruled out third party runs for U.S. Congress in 2014 and for President in 2016.

When asked via e-mail about the possibility he would seek, as the Justice Party nominee, Utah’s newly formed 4th U.S. Congressional district seat, which conservative Democrat Jim Matheson Read more »

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Illinois finished its official vote tally on December 3. The number of write-ins for declared write-in presidential candidates had not previously been available. For the candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state, these are the Illinois write-in totals: Virgil Goode 415, Rocky Anderson 185, Jill Reed 131, Tom Hoefling 25, Jerry White 12.

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The Justice Party is planning a national convention, to be held February 22-24, 2013, in or near Oakland, California. The party will work on bylaws and election of party officers, among other tasks.

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Three-fourths of the states haven’t released their official vote tallies from November 6, 2012. Wikipedia’s page on the 2012 Election has a running tally for the eight presidential candidates with the biggest votes. As of November 24, the page shows 1,252,088 for Gary Johnson (.99%); 455,344 for Jill Stein; 119,536 for Virgil Goode. See more here. Scroll down to “results.”

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Early this year, Rocky Anderson founded the Justice Party and was nominated as its presidential candidate. His attempts to get on various state ballots were helped when four one-state parties which were already ballot-qualified nominated him as their presidential candidate. These four parties were the Connecticut Independent Party, the Michigan Natural Law Party, the New Mexico Independent Party, and the Oregon Progressive Party. All four parties had nominated Ralph Nader for President in 2008. Read more »

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Connecticut seems to have completed its official tally already. See here. The tally shows that Rocky Anderson polled 19,399 votes in the state, but this seems to be an obvious error, because the official tally shows that Mitt Romney received zero votes in Wallingford, and that President Obama received 9,259 votes in Wallingford, and that Anderson received 11,559 votes in Wallingford. There is a similar mistake for the town of Woodbury. Read more »

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Google has compiled the national totals for various presidential candidates who were on the ballot, but they are very faulty. Google figures for Virgil Goode, for example, show less than 10,000, when the preliminary returns from the 26 states in which he was on the ballot yield a total of 108,195 votes. Google calculates 1,139,562 for Gary Johnson as of several hours ago, but of course all these numbers are constantly increasing as more votes are counted. Probably at least 8% of all votes nationwide still Read more »