If you can’t make up your mind from this list of presidential candidates, you’re not trying. Sure, voters will see Republican Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Libertarian Gary Johnson on their ballots on Nov. 8 and during ongoing early voting. But they’ll also have 15 write-in candidates for president to choose from, ranging from Green Party candidate Jill Stein to a guy who goes by the name Joe Exotic. Delaware County election officials caution that people who want to make their vote — even a write-in vote — count have to write in one of the 15 write-in candidates certified by the state. “If it’s not a certified write-in candidate, that office doesn’t get a vote,” Delaware County Clerk Mike King told The Star Press. So votes for Daffy D. Duck or Amanda Hugginkiss will not be counted. But voters will be able to write in Matthew “None of the Above” Roberts, a political science professor from Michigan who told a newspaper he wants to spark a “conversation” about the political system, or Richard Duncan, an economist from Ohio.
Some of the presidential candidates, plus two vice-presidential candidates and two candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, are earnest in their effort, even if unlikely to win. Emidio “Mimi” Soltysik is a Socialist candidate from Los Angeles who was overshadowed among adherents to that political leaning by Bernie Sanders.
Some are more colorful, like Joseph Maldonado, who is better known by his nickname, Joe Exotic. The independent candidate is a zookeeper from Oklahoma. At least one online announcement of his candidacy shows him wearing a fringed leather jacket and a holstered gun strapped to his hip. Maldonado and his husband are best known in Oklahoma for their wildlife farm and for granting the wishes of terminally-ill people who want to hold lion cubs or meet exotic animals.
Full Article: Write-in candidates include ‘None of the Above’.