A writing candidate is a candidate in an election whose name does not appear on the ballot, but for whom the voter may vote by writing the person's name. This system is almost completely confined to elections in the United States. Some US states and local jurisdictions allow voters to put stickers, with names of candidates written, to vote instead of actually writing in the candidate's name. Written nominations are sometimes the result of candidates who are not legally or procedurally eligible to walk under their own name or party; candidacy of candidates may be permitted where the deadline forbids candidates currently in office for nominally nominated, or registered on a ballot for, re-election. In some cases, writing campaigns have been set up to support a candidate who is not personally involved in running; this may be a form of draft campaign.
Prospective writes rarely win, and sometimes votes in the list are given to unqualified or fictitious characters. Some jurisdictions require newly registered candidates as official candidates before the election. This is a standard in elections with many potential candidates, as there may be multiple candidates with the same name that can be written.
Many US states and municipalities allow for a vote in a partisan election in which no candidate is registered on the ballot to have the same functional effect as nominating a petition: for example, if there are no members of the Reform Party in a vote for the state general. The Assembly and a candidate receive more than 200 votes in writing when the primary elections are held (or a number of other signatures required for ballot access), candidates will be placed on ballots on the ballot line for elections. In many places, this provision also applies to non-partisan elections.
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Contrast from empty sound selection system
The term "writing candidate" is used in the election in which the names of candidates or parties are printed earlier on a ballot paper or displayed on an electronic voting machine. This term is generally not used in the election in which all ballot papers are empty and thus all voters must write in the names of the candidates they like. The blank voting system reduces the cost of printing the ballot, but improves the complexity of casting and counting sounds. Such a system was used in Japan, and was used in the past in the Second Republic of France, and in Philippine elections from World War 2 through the 2010 elections. An empty polling system usually requires candidates to be nominated previously.
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The historical success of the writing candidate
In 2010, California voters passed Proposition 14 governing a new election system for the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, all state offices (governors, lieutenant governors, state secretaries, state treasurers, state controllers, attorney general, insurance commissioners, and supervisor of public instruction), California Equality Council, and for the State Legislature of California. In the system set out by Proposition 14, there are two rounds of voting, and the top two voters for each race in the first round (the main ones, usually held in June) advance to the second round (general election, held In November). Proposition 14 specifically prohibits the candidates written in the second round, and this prohibition is upheld in a court challenge. Another court challenge to the banning of writing candidates in the second round was submitted in July 2014.
Although Proposition 14 prohibits candidates written in the second round of voting, it makes it easier for candidates who write in the first half to advance to the second round. This generally occurs in elections in which only one candidate is registered on the ballot. Because in every race, the top two winners of the first round are guaranteed to advance to the second round, if only one candidate is registered on the ballot, the writing candidate can easily advance to the second round, as written in the candidate only has to compete with the candidate another for the 2nd position, not with the listed candidate. In some primary forest systems, if the winner in the first round wins more than 50% of the vote, the second round (round) is canceled, but in the system set by Proposition 14, the second round (runoff) is required regardless of the winning percentage of votes from the round first received. Therefore, Proposition 14 guarantees that if one candidate is registered on the ballot in the first round, an incoming candidate against a registered candidate may gain a second round spot with just one vote.
The first election in which Proposition 14 came into force was the 2012 elections.
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