Write in Vote for Cindy Sheehan

The "Top Two" voting system that California has been using for the past couple of years is NOT supposed to have any write-in spaces for the Fall election "partisan" races, such as Governor! I just checked my sample ballot again, and it definitely does NOT have a write-in space for those offices. (But it does have write-in spaces for "non-partisan" races such as city council). So maybe your county (somehow) isn't as "strict" about this as in other counties. (However, I too, won't be voting for Brown (or the Republican) -- I'll just leave it blank, in protest!).

In any case, unless there (somehow) clearly is a write-in space for these offices in your county, I wouldn't recommend "trying" to write-in another candidate, as (depending on your county), it might actually end up invalidating your ballot!

Are you a right-wing troll, political junkie, or just stupid?! I am looking at my ballot and the write in spaces are at the bottom of every office. You obviously don't know what you are talking about. Trying to discourage me from writing in Cindy Sheehan in case I might invalidate my ballet is a typical republi-con tactic-nice try. I hope the koch brothers pay you well!

In the 3rd-to-last section of this article (here: http://cavotes.org/sites/default/files/jobs/Top%20Two%20Primary%20FAQ%27s_0.pdf ) from cavotes.org (by the League of Women Voters), it says, "Can write-in candidates for voter-nominated offices run in the general election? No, because a write-in candidate on the November ballot would not have been one of the top-two vote getters in the primary". (In the 6th section, "What offices are affected?", it explains that Governor, and all of the other "partisan" races this November are now considered "voter-nominated offices").

And here is an article from "Ballot Access News" entitled, "Independent Congressional Candidate Files Lawsuit Against California’s Ban on Write-in Voting in General Election" (here: http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/07/independent-congressional-candidate-files-lawsuit-against-californias-ban-on-write-in-voting-in-general-election/ ) which refers in the first sentence to, "...California's ban on write-in votes in the general election for Congress and partisan state office".

Here in Berkeley (Alameda county), we have to "fill in arrows" on our ballots to make our vote count. In my sample ballot, for Governor, it has an "arrow to fill in" for Jerry Brown (D), and for Neel Kashkari (R), but that's all that's there -- there is NOT an arrow (or even a space) for anyone else. However (as I mentioned before), the voting system varies by county, so maybe (somehow) in your county there still is a space there. But, according to the "Top Two" rules that were enacted two years ago, there are not supposed to be any write-in candidates for Governor (or other partisan offices) for this election. So, if you "officially" want to find out if your write-in vote for Governor (or any other partisan office) will count or not, I suggest you telephone your local County Registrar of Voters. (The telephone numbers for all of the counties are here: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_d.htm And if they say "Yes", please let us know what county you're in -- so we can all move there so our votes will count, because where I live, we're not allowed to write-in anyone, any more!).

Thanks-I'll put my trust in the Sec. of State. My ballot didn't come from my county, it came from the state.