How To Vote for a Write-In Candidate on Election Day

1. To write -in a candidate find the line provided for write-in votes.

2. Fill in the oval corresponding to the office sought by the candidate.

3. Write the name of the eligible candidate on the blank space.

4. BE CAREFUL, do not write on the dashes on the edge of the ballot.

Directions for voting for write-in candidates at the state and federal levels, such as Todd Vachon for US Representative in CT's 2nd district, can be found here.

'I'd Rather Vote for what I want and not get it than vote for what I don't want and get it.'

-- Eugene Debs, (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as candidate for President of the United States as a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1900, and later as a member of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs would eventually become one of the best known Socialists in the United States.

 

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