First C.E.S [draft] Recommendation: Banning of Write In Candidates

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Why don't candidates have to get a certain number of signatures in order to file on the ballot?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

It's what happens in real life... it doesn't have to be onerous... maybe something like 3 registered voters in the district/region?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Since when can people cannot vote based on personal grudges?

How about voters may only list for one write-in candidate. That would prevent voters from doing what Hughento did, which, while technically legal, definitly contained personal grudges.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

In Tennessee, you have to register to be a write-in candidate  within a number of days before the election but well after the regular filing deadline.  No signatures are required, a form just has to be filled out by the candidate.

If we put write-in votes on the ballot and have them registered, they aren't really write-in candidates anymore. I think registering as a write-in candidate defeats the purpose of being a write-in candidate.