From: greg@phoenix (greg Nowak)
Subject: Re: No looking at your neighbors' papers....
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: greg@phoenix (greg Nowak)
Organization: Baguette Research Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:17:32 GMT

In article <1akhv8INN1bv@uwm.edu>, terri@csd4 (Theresa J Flynn) writes:

}A midterm campaign examination on everything we have learned so far:

Ah, nothing like a St. Terri post when you have an urge to follow
up...

        Since there is such great interest in the upcoming election,
and since not all of you may be blessed with easy access to a sample
ballot, and since I always feel that if I studied the weirdo
candidates column as much as I wanted to I would be taking up too much
voting-booth time, I thought I might share with you the list of names
present on my write-in ballot.  There are four columns: the first
reads "Presidential Electors for (Vote for One)", then Democratic,
Republican, and "Nomination by Petition". First observation of
interest: The Demos get that little edge that comes from being in the
first column. (NB: This is a Mercer County, NJ absentee ballot. I
assume the choice of column order is made at a national level, and is
the same for absentee voters. Any flames of this article will receive
a response which includes my take on the gripes of foreign-resident
absentee voters.)

Second interesting observation: A certain informality has been
permitted in the use of nicknames, as you will see. All names are in
small caps, except the particles (one "La" and one "De" on the ballot)
from which I'll spare your eyes.

Dem: Bill Clinton and Al Gore [NB: no distiction of office besides the
                               order of the names]
Rep: George Bush and Dan Quayle [my guess is "H.W." and "J. Danforth"
                               got the best of the nickname decision]

And now the petitions:



Ron Daniels/Independent: Ron Daniels and Asiba Turpahache
New Alliance Party: Lenora B. Fulani and Maria Elizabeth Munoz
Taxpayers Party: Howard Phillips and Albion Knight
Workers League: Helen Halyard and Fred Mazelis
Independent: H. Ross Perot and James Bond Stockdale
"6 Million Jobs": Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and Elliot I. Greenspan
Libertarian Party: Andre Marrou and Nancy Lord
Socialist Workers Party: James Warren and Estelle DeBates
Natural Law Party: John Hagelin and Mike Tompkins
America First Populist: James "Bo" Gritz and Cy Minnet
Independent: Drew Bradford [No VP listed]

In the HR election, there's Frank G. Abate for the Dems and
Dick Zimmer for the Reps, as well as Carl Peters for the Libertarians
and Compton C. Pakenham for the America First Populist slot. There are
also two candidates listed merely as Independent for the HR spot:
Edward F. Eggert and Carl J. Mayer. Does anyone know if either of
these two independents are affiliated with Perot or Bradford?
Note also that LaRouche's party affiliation is exactly as it appears
on the ballot, "'s and all. Same with Bo Gritz. A few old favorites
who appear to have given up: Gus Hall and Harold Stassen. Anybody have
any information on any of the fringe candidates other than Gritz?

Oh yeah, just to forestall the obvious:

Never mind that, do they stand up ...

--greg                                     greg@phoenix.princeton.edu

        "greg came here for doughnuts and the zoo. "
        --grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Big Squeegee)