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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Under the ABO* Category: Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against Obama in West Virginia primary

Some other candidate wears stripes!
*ABO = Anybody But Obama!
The real question is, why did the inmate, Keith Judd, only get 40%?
He is qualified as a delegate to the Democrat Convention. He will be indistinguishable from the other Democrat delegates.




Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against Obama in West Virginia primary | Mail Online
9 May 2012

How unpopular can Obama get? Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against President in West Virginia primary

  • Prisoner Keith Judd got 40% of vote in West Virginia to Obama's 60%
  • Inmate 11593-051 got on ballot by paying $2,500 fee and filing forms
  • Attracting 15% of vote normally qualifies candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention



Just how unpopular is President Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in a Texas prison received four out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.
Inmate Keith Judd, 53, is serving 17 years for extortion at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution. He was sentenced in 1999 for making threats against the University of New Mexico and is due to be released on June 24 next year.
With 93 per cent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 per cent of the vote to Judd's 40 per cent.
For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd - or Inmate Number 11593-051 - votes. ...
Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.
According to the Charleston Gazette, Judd circulated his political standpoints to local media. These include opposing national health care reform on the grounds that it violates the 10th Amendment.
He also cites the U.S. Constitution, saying that incarcerated felons should not be disqualified from voting. [A strongly held Democrat position,]


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141657/Texas-INMATE-gets-40-cent-votes-Obama-West-Virginia-primary.html#ixzz1uNliCD8C
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