We're getting close to a full tally of the votes the Carroll-Patel campaign received. Nearly half of our votes were write-ins, and those often take a long time to tally as well as, in some cases, some prodding of the election authorities.
Here's what we have:
Here we list our results in each state where we received votes and compare results to 2016.
NR = Not recorded last time.
Wisconsin- 5,259 votes, 0.159%; 284 in 2016 as write-in
Illinois- 9,548 votes, 0.158%; NR in 2016
Rhode Island= 767 votes, 0.148%; 46 in 2016 as write-in
Kansas- 583 votes, 0.042%; 214 in 2016
Minnesota- 1,037 votes, 0.032%; 244 in 2016
Tennessee- 762 votes*, 0.031%; NR in 2016
Indiana- 893 votes, 0.029%; NR in 2016
Texas- 3,207 votes, 0.028%; 1401 in 2016
Maryland- 1,588 votes, 0.026%; 504 in 2016
Pennsylvania- 47% reporting; 480 votes, 0.022%; NR in 2016)
Missouri- 664 votes, 0.022%; NR in 2016
Kentucky- 408 votes, 0.019%; 155 in 2016
Georgia- 48% reporting; 447 votes, 0.019%; 151 in 2016
Idaho- 163 votes, 0.019%; 56 in 2016
Michigan- 963 votes, 0.017%; 517 in 2016
California- 99% reporting; 2605 votes, 0.015%; 1,316 in 2016
Connecticut- 217 votes, 0.012%; NR in 2016
New Jersey- 49% reporting; 194 votes, 0.011%; NR in 2016
New York- 92% reporting; 839 votes, 0.011%; 459 in 2016
Florida- 854 votes, 0.008%; NR in 2016
Massachusetts- 164 votes, 0.005%; NR in 2016
Arkansas- 1,713 votes, 0.141%; NR in 2016
Louisiana- 2,497 votes, 0.116%; NR in 2016
Mississippi- 1,161 votes, 0.088%; NR in 2016
Colorado- 2,505 votes, 0.077%; 862 in 2016
Vermont- 209 votes, 0.057%; 16 in 2016 as write-in
In total, so far we know of 41,547 votes for Brian Carroll, with some votes still expected. 23,659 came from our 8 ballot states; 17,888 came from our 20 write-in states.
That's roughly a 7-fold improvement from 2016.
Just realized we left out Utah (368 votes, 0.026%; NR in 2016) and Ohio (1,452 votes, 0.025%; 552 in 2016)!
We also got 13 votes recorded in Skagit County, Washington, which is the only county in the state that bothered to record write-ins.
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The concentration of corporate power in a few hands is a big problem even if a few of those hands happen to be different colors.
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It's hard to see this as anything other than a strained attempt to align religion with a secular political ideology (and, obviously, people do this on the left as well).
That's not good either for politics or for religion.
We're a non-sectarian org, but many of are members are committed Christians (and members of other faiths too!) who see the ASP as one way they can live out their faith in the public sphere.
That's a different thing than subordinating faith to partisanship.
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