These write-in votes weren’t critical. It was the 600,000+ people who voted for Trump in 2016 but stayed home in 2017 who cost Moore this election.
Rather than write-in “Mickey Mouse”, they should just just stay home.
It’s an insult to people who fought to preserve this system, and to those who died in defense of it.
Somewhat true. I don’t have the numbers in front me, but I think there were enough write in votes that, IF they were all people that wanted to vote for Moore but didn’t because of the allegations, then that’s enough to swing the election. However, broadly, it’s true that half a million Trump voters sat home. I knew when I saw the polls after those allegations that he was doomed. It didn’t matter if he was innocent - the mere allegations damned him.
It wasn’t them. Sessions received 750,000 in his last, uncontested election. Had just those voters turned out, Moore would have won.