The Green Papers: 2008 General Election
 
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 NameElectoral
Vote		Popular
Vote		Party(ies)Ballot Access
(possible electoral vote)		Total
possible
electoral
vote
printedwrite-in
CandidateAll others 14,4830.01%Scattering 1 (12)12
CandidateDonald Kenneth Allen 2360.00%Unaffiliated,
Write-in		 4 (56)56
CandidateJonathan Edward Allen 4730.00%HeartQuake '08,
Write-in		1 (9)10 (138)147
CandidateGene C. Amondson 6530.00%Prohibition Party3 (45) 45
CandidateAparicio 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateJose Miguel Aparicio 10.00%Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateCharles Obadiah "Chuck" Baldwin 199,1570.15%Alaskan Independence,
Constitution,
Independent,
Independent American,
Independent Greens,
Nebraska,
Reform,
U.S. Taxpayers,
Write-in		37 (318)11 (195)513
CandidateBob Barr 523,5150.40%Independent,
Libertarian,
Write-in		45 (503)2 (7)510
CandidateBlank Votes 2,1930.00%Scattering 1 (4)4
CandidateBlank 80,2360.06%Scattering 1 (31)31
CandidateBlanks 22,0100.02%Scattering 1 (12)12
CandidateMichael Bloomberg 60.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateLawson Mitchell Bone 20.00%Independent,
Write-in		 5 (34)34
CandidateJeffrey Harlan "Jeff" Boss 6390.00%Vote Here1 (15) 15
CandidateBrian Russell Brown 20.00%Write-in 1 (15)15
CandidateRobert Brown 30.00%Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateTheodis "Ted" Brown, Sr. 10.00%Independent,
Write-in		 1 (10)10
CandidateDavid C. Byrne 40.00%Write-in 1 (15)15
CandidateRóger Calero 5,1460.00%Socialist Workers Party,
Write-in		5 (62)1 (7)69
CandidateCarroll & Simpson 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateJerry Leon Carroll 0 Write-in 2 (8)8
CandidateDarrell Lane Castle 510.00%Constitution,
Independent,
Write-in		 1 (11)11
CandidateVincent Albert "Buddy" Cianci, Jr. 50.00%Republican,
Write-in		 1 (4)4
CandidateAndrew Clarke 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateSanta Claus 620.00%Write-in 2 (8)8
CandidateRosa A. Clemente 100.00%Green,
Write-in		 1 (3)3
CandidateHillary Rodham Clinton 6,7930.01%Democratic,
Write-in		 3 (29)29
CandidateWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton 190.00%Democratic,
Write-in		 2 (8)8
CandidateStephen Colbert 80.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateCriveau & Guthrie 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateJames Dennis Criveau 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateRichard A. Duncan 3,9020.00%Independent1 (20) 20
CandidateMichael L. Faith 120.00%America's Independent,
Write-in		 1 (11)11
CandidateJames R. Germalic 10.00%Write-in 2 (23)23
CandidateJames Germalio 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateLarry Goddard 0 Write-in 1 (3)3
CandidateAlbert A. "Al" , Gore, Jr. 150.00%Democratic,
Write-in		 1 (4)4
CandidateMark Blair Graham 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateLeonard C. Habermehl   Write-in 1 (8)8
CandidateJames E. Harris 2,4240.00%Socialist Workers Party,
Write-in		5 (63)2 (70)133
CandidateRaeDeen Heupel 140.00%Independent,
Write-in		 2 (13)13
CandidateThaddaus Hill 2140.00%Write-in 1 (34)34
CandidateRonald G. "Ron" Hobbs 60.00%Independent,
Write-in		 6 (50)50
CandidateMichael Dale "Mike" Huckabee 950.00%Republican,
Write-in		 2 (8)8
CandidateJay & Taylor 10.00%Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateCharles Jay 2,4210.00%Boston Tea,
Independent,
Personal Choice,
Write-in		3 (47)3 (23)70
CandidateJesus 70.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateKeith Russell Judd 10.00%Green,
Nonpartisan,
Write-in		 7 (47)47
CandidateJudy 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateCharles William Kennedy 0 Write-in 1 (31)31
CandidateAlan L. Keyes 47,6670.04%America's Independent,
American Independent,
Write-in		3 (91)10 (145)236
CandidateDennis J. Kucinich 50.00%Democratic,
Write-in		 1 (4)4
CandidateLou Kujawski 10.00%Republican,
Write-in		 1 (11)11
CandidateGloria Estela La Riva 6,8180.01%Independent,
Socialism and Liberation,
Unaffiliated		12 (137) 137
CandidateMonroe Lee 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateJeffrey S. Lehmann 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateLundeen 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateJames Edgar Lundeen, Sr. 0 Write-in 2 (8)8
CandidateBradford Lyttle 1100.00%U.S. Pacifist Party1 (9) 9
CandidateGlen John Mansfield 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateKenneth A. Marcure 0 Write-in 1 (3)3
CandidateJohn Sidney McCain, III17359,944,93945.61%Conservative,
Independence,
Republican		51 (538) 538
CandidateFrank Edward McEnulty 8280.00%Unaffiliated1 (9) 9
CandidateCynthia A. McKinney 161,6750.12%D.C. Statehood Green,
Green,
Green-Rainbow,
Independent,
Mountain,
Pacific Green,
Unaffiliated,
Write-in		32 (368)17 (160)528
CandidateWilliam Louis "Billy" Mills, Jr.   Write-in 1 (8)8
CandidateMel Moench 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateCurtis Montgomery 10.00%Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateBrian Patrick Moore 6,5210.00%Independent,
Liberty Union,
Socialist Party USA,
Write-in		8 (102)9 (156)258
CandidateFrank Moore 530.00%Independent,
Write-in		 25 (270)270
CandidateKevin Mottus 90.00%Independent,
Write-in		 1 (11)11
CandidateMickey Mouse 110.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateRalph Nader 738,6340.56%By Petition,
Ecology Party of Florida,
Independence,
Independent,
Independent Party Of Delaware,
Natural Law,
No Affiliation,
Nomination by other than by Primary,
Peace,
Peace And Freedom,
Petition,
Populist,
Unaffiliated,
Write-in		46 (456)4 (75)531
CandidateJohn "Gary" Nettles 3910.00%Write-in 1 (27)27
CandidateNo Vote 430.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateNone of Above 110.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateNone of these candidates 6,2670.00%None of these candidates 1 (5)5
CandidateOTHERS 4310.00%Scattering 1 (4)4
CandidateOVER VOTES 2,3380.00%Scattering 1 (7)7
ElectedBarack Hussein Obama36569,491,81752.88%Democratic,
Democratic-Farmer Labor,
Democratic-Nonpartisan League,
Working Families		51 (538) 538
CandidateOther Write-Ins 9,0430.01%Scattering 1 (10)10
CandidateOthers 6730.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateOver Votes 8590.00%Scattering 3 (10)10
CandidateSarah H. Palin 180.00%Republican,
Write-in		 1 (4)4
CandidateRonald Ernest "Ron" Paul 42,4260.03%Constitution,
Libertarian,
Louisiana Taxpayers,
Republican,
Write-in		2 (12)5 (105)117
CandidateMichael Anthony Peroutka 230.00%Constitution,
Write-in		 1 (15)15
CandidateGeorge David Joseph Phillies 5310.00%Boston Tea,
Libertarian		1 (4) 4
CandidateJohn Leroy Plemons 10.00%Independent,
Write-in		 1 (11)11
CandidateJohn Joseph Polachek 1,1490.00%New1 (21) 21
CandidateColin Luther Powell 140.00%Republican,
Write-in		 1 (4)4
CandidateCharles Glen "Bud" Railey 30.00%Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateDebra Joyce Renderos 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateOscar R. Renderos 0 Write-in 1 (10)10
CandidateDavid L. Rice 180.00%Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidatePlatt Robertson 630.00%Write-in 2 (30)30
CandidateMitt Romney 1370.00%Republican,
Write-in		 2 (8)8
CandidateRichard R. Rosenkranz   Write-in 1 (6)6
CandidateSCATTERING 6,7370.01%Scattering 1 (7)7
CandidateScattered 8,1800.01%Scattering 1 (21)21
CandidateScattering 10,1340.01%Scattering 2 (41)41
CandidateJoseph Charles "Average Joe" Schriner 820.00%Write-in 3 (40)40
CandidateMichael Skok 10.00%Write-in 1 (31)31
CandidateDavid Jon Sponheim 10.00%Write-in 4 (36)36
CandidateLynne Anne Starr 40.00%Independent,
Write-in		 2 (13)13
CandidateThomas Robert "Tom" Stevens 7550.00%Objectivist Party2 (36) 36
CandidateJan Arden Sykes 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
CandidateBlaine Taylor 120.00%Democratic,
Write-in		 1 (10)10
CandidateTotal Over Votes 6930.00%Scattering 1 (6)6
CandidateTotal Under Votes 8,6480.01%Scattering 1 (6)6
CandidateUNDER VOTES 4,5040.00%Scattering 1 (7)7
CandidateUnder Votes 1,8360.00%Scattering 2 (6)6
CandidateShelley Renêe Upchurch   Write-in 1 (8)8
CandidateJesse Ventura 50.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateVoid 9880.00%Scattering 1 (31)31
CandidateWRITE-IN Misc. 12,2980.01%Scattering 1 (15)15
CandidateJeffrey J. Wamboldt 7640.00%Independent,
We, the People		1 (10) 10
CandidateLanakila Washington 30.00%Write-in 1 (31)31
CandidateTed C. Weill 4810.00%Reform1 (6) 6
CandidateJerome S. "Jerry" White 180.00%Socialist Equality,
Write-in		 1 (31)31
CandidateWrite In 2,8370.00%Scattering 1 (5)5
CandidateWrite In, if any 1,1380.00%Scattering 1 (3)3
CandidateWrite-In 3,7050.00%Scattering 1 (9)9
CandidateWrite-Ins 1,5210.00%Scattering 1 (3)3
CandidateWrite-in Votes 15,0110.01%Scattering,
Write-in		 2 (10)10
CandidateWrite-in 17,5810.01%Write-in 3 (26)26
CandidateSamuel Joseph "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher 50.00%Write-in 1 (4)4
CandidateAmy Lou Wyatt 10.00%Write-in 1 (3)3
CandidateEugene Robert "Gene" Zarwell 0 Write-in 1 (5)5
 Totals538131,426,292100.0%    

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Arizona  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 10 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 8 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 2,293,475 100.00%  
Colorado  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 9 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate HeartQuake '08 348 0.01% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 2,401,361 100.00%  
Georgia  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 15 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 8 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 3,924,440 100.00%  
Kansas  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 6 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 2 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 1,235,872 100.00%  
Maine  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 4 (The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes statewide receives 2 electors. The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes in each of the 2 Congressional Districts receives that district's elector.), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08)     Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 731,163 100.00%  
Minnesota  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 10 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 0 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 2,910,369 100.00%  
Montana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 3 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 1 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 490,302 100.00%  
New York  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 31 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 1 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 7,722,155 100.00%  
Texas  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 34 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 101 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 8,077,073 100.00%  
Utah  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 5 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place., Duly Appointed Presidential Electors.
  Candidate Write-in; (HeartQuake '08) 2 0.00% Jonathan Edward Allen
• Vice President: Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Stath
• FEC P80005119: $95,029
Total 952,370 100.00%  
Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.
Major Parties
 • Democratic
 • Democratic-Farmer Labor
 • Democratic-Nonpartisan League
 • Republican
Major Third Parties
 • D.C. Statehood Green
 • Green
 • Green-Rainbow
 • Libertarian
 • Pacific Green
 • Reform
Other Third Parties
 • Alaskan Independence
 • American Independent
 • America's Independent
 • Boston Tea
 • Conservative
 • Constitution
 • Ecology Party of Florida
 • HeartQuake '08
 • Independence
 • Independent American
 • Independent Greens
 • Independent Party Of Delaware
 • Liberty Union
 • Louisiana Taxpayers
 • Mountain
 • Natural Law
 • Nebraska
 • New
 • Objectivist Party
 • Socialism and Liberation
 • Peace
 • Peace And Freedom
 • Personal Choice
 • Populist
 • Prohibition Party
 • Socialist Equality
 • Socialist Party USA
 • Socialist Workers Party
 • U.S. Pacifist Party
 • U.S. Taxpayers
 • Vote Here
 • We, the People
 • Working Families
Independents
 • By Petition
 • Independent
 • No Affiliation
 • Nomination by other than by Primary
 • Nonpartisan
 • Petition
 • Unaffiliated
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
 • None of these candidates
 • Scattering
 • Write-in
 
 

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