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Many write [Acting Gov] Codey in for [NJ] governor
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 27, 2005 11:34am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Home News Tribune (NJ) |
| News Date | Sunday, November 27, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Home News Tribune Online 11/27/05
By MICHAEL SYMONS
GANNETT STATE BUREAU
msymons@gannett.com
TRENTON — Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey says he was interested in being elected governor, not U.S. senator — and about 10,000 people cast votes this month to make that happen, even though his name wasn't listed on the ballot.
According to unofficial election results compiled in a Gannett New Jersey survey involving all 21 county clerks' offices, Codey received at least 9,668 write-in votes for governor in the Nov. 8 election.
That amounts to about one out of every 200 voters writing in Codey's name, or 0.5 percent of the vote. That was good enough for a sixth-place finish, ahead of five of the eight third-party and independent candidates whose names were on the ballot.
There wasn't an organized write-in campaign, and Codey discouraged such signs of support when the topic was publicly raised, asking that such votes be directed to fellow Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine, who is now the governor-elect.
"That's amazing," said Monmouth University political scientist Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth/Gannett New Jersey Poll. "That's just incredible." |
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