Well, it would seem that there are kindred spirits also protesting the lack of choice in candidates….

These folks wrote in cartoon characters in place of live candidates.  I’m not sure there is a difference.  Haha.

Notice how the talking heads make light of the whole thing instead of taking folks’ concerns seriously…and actually, you know, reporting on why folks are writing in their own candidates….and the difficulty in getting a write in candidate on the ballot.  I was not even aware that Ralph Nader was on the Indiana ballot in 2012…it was never mentioned when the talking heads “reported” on the candidates for the election.  Funny how that goes, eh?

Here are more folks writing in sports heroes.  Okay…that’s taking it a bit too far.  I’m thinking more of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Ghandi…or just anyone who is able to survive being poor…definitely my heroes.

This is from New York, but still helpful in writing in a candidate.

This is the form a write-in candidate must file in Indiana. Note that in order to affiliate with the Dems or Repubs, they must get the party’s blessing.  Can you beat that?  This is after the county clerk in the town I grew up in absolutely refused to change my party affiliation when I requested it.  She tried to tell me that they no longer ask for party affiliation when registering voters, therefore, I was no longer a Republican.  Not that I would want to call myself Democrat now, either, but that’s besides the point.  But here we have this official form asking that if folks did not declare a party affiliation or vote with a certain party, they had to get the party’s okay to run as a candidate for that party.  There is something wrong here.