Odd results for SWP candidate Roger Calero in Precinct near mine

[Smash255]

In one of the precincts near mine Roger Calero picked up 16 votes, he had 147 votes in Nassau County.  His total in this one precinct made up 11% of his votes in the entire county meanwhile the precinct counted for 0.106% of all votes in the county.  Nothing in the precinct would make you think these results would occured, its super majority white middle class Bush won it by 11.55%

[Alcon]

Maybe someone went around the neighbourhood convincing people to vote for him.  That would seem about the number of voters you could convince by going around to houses, focusing on just your neighbourhood.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ah, the SWP. Time for that ancient joke I think:

The SWP isn't Socialist, isn't a Party and hasn't got any Workers in it

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Ah, the SWP. Time for that ancient joke I think:

The SWP isn't Socialist, isn't a Party and hasn't got any Workers in it

And never have truer words been spoken...

[minionofmidas]

Two likely possibilities: a) Faulty or misleading setup of voting machine
b) He lives there.

Plus a number of off-possibilities that can't be quite ruled out.

[Alcon]

Two likely possibilities: a) Faulty or misleading setup of voting machine
b) He lives there.

Plus a number of off-possibilities that can't be quite ruled out.

He lives in New Jersey, I think.

I still would wager that this is just one guy's barnstorming.  Maybe he has a lot of extended family there that he got to vote.

[Serenity Now]

Ah, the SWP. Time for that ancient joke I think:

The SWP isn't Socialist, isn't a Party and hasn't got any Workers in it

Although I don't really like Nick Cohen I did like his description of them as a "totalitarian organization that parastically leaches on to every left-movement".

The SWP lot at my university try to take over almost every political movement on campus, not with great effect, I actually started to like the small group of anarchists when I realized that all they seem to achieve is to undermine the Trots..

[minionofmidas]

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I still would wager that this is just one guy's barnstorming.  Maybe he has a lot of extended family there that he got to vote.

Both included among the no. of off-possibilities I was thinking of. Although extended family don't actually tend to vote for fringe candidates.

(I'll never forget the story my mom once told me, of a local fringe DKP (German Communist Party) candidate with his wife coming to vote in the precinct where she sat as a pollworker. The DKP received one vote in the precinct. )

[Alcon]

That's true...but I guess if you pester everyone you know to vote for a crazy because the two candidates are "too conservative," you'll end up getting a dozen or so.  I'm honestly surprised that there isn't more localized strength for the crazies.

[adam]

The oddest part is that Calero wasn't even a legally viable candidate for the presidency (not a citizen), nor was his vice-presidential candidate who was underaged.