Why are the people still voting for Thompson?

[fufurios]

I don't know very much about you voting system, but why is it?
I thought, he's out of the race.

 

[MozoVote]

I can only presume those are people that do not like the current field and wanted to send a message. Heck, Hunter also got several thousand votes.

In a sense, you could add Thompson, Hunter and Paul together and that gives a sense of how large the "protest" vote was in FLA.

 

[PepperdotNet]

Die hard supporters.

If RP dropped out of the race, most of us would still vote for him.

 

[Time for Change]

because florida is full of dipshit election officials, who cannot trim the ballot down to those actively campaigning for the nomination.

It is a computer program...not like they have to reprint ballots or anything.

Unacceptable comes to mind, but I am getting used to strange stuff down here.
Maybe I expect too much of them....

 

[mynameisJason]

Doesn't matter.

People will write him in for the election in November too, but not many.

I guess they're trying to encourage him to stay in. Frankly, it would do my heart good to see him and Dr. Paul the only two debating in July. We have 7 socialists and 1 conservative running right now.

 

[Carole]

They probably voted before he dropped out.

 

[CaliforniaGold]

Actually, i think it is a plus that they are that determined NOT to vote for the field they see that means they have not chosen a second placer.

It is our job to seek them out and offer them a second choice they can be proud of!

 

[mynameisJason]

Actually, i think it is a plus that they are that determined NOT to vote for the field they see that means they have not chosen a second placer.

It is our job to seek them out and offer them a second choice they can be proud of!

+1

and when the poo really starts hitting the fan these top three jokes will fall away.

 

[DFF]

So will Ghoul/Thompson/Hunter be on all the Super Tuesday ballots as well?

 

[thekiefs]

Absentee?

 

[Desperado]

Florida has early voting which started about a month ago.
So when some of those votes were cast the candidates were still in the running.

 

[Cindy]

We had paper ballots at my precinct polls and Thompson was still on it.

 

[Desperado]

I believe once a candidate pays his filing fee, his name stays on the ballot.

 

[devil21]

Dont forget this one! Just plain old uninformed voters who don't know he dropped out. Call it the Law & Order effect.

 

[pacelli]

I don't know very much about you voting system, but why is it?
I thought, he's out of the race.

These are the same people that voted for Ronald Reagan in Louisiana.

Never forget that

 

[Feelgood]

Even though he dropped out, his name was still on the Diebold screen. So was Tancredo's as well. So technically you could vote for Tancredo if you wanted.

 

[christagious]

I don't know very much about you voting system, but why is it?
I thought, he's out of the race.

Same reason why we will write in Paul's name if he doesn't get the nomination. They support their guy til the end

 

[Lisa S]

Better question is why people are still voting for McCain?

 

[brandon13830]

I wonder if Alan Keyes got any votes?

Holy hell, he got 3,978. That means there's at least that many who couldn't fill in the proper bubble.

 

[ignoranceisntbliss]

Because EVERY candidate was on the ballot. I think I even seen Gilmore on there.