General Election write-ins released

The state Elections Division of the Secretary of State Office this week released a compilation of statistics detailing the total number of write-in votes for president in last November's General Election.

Statewide, write-in votes accounted for 3.25 percent of the vote, with 107,805 votes cast for candidates not on the ballot. This number exceeded the total amount of votes, combined, for the tickets of Alyson Kennedy/Osborne Hart, Gloria Estela La Riva/Eugene Puryear, Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka and Darrell L. Castle/Scott N. Bradley. Those four tickets garnered 83,870 votes statewide.

The Gary Jo...