I don’t know do votes for a withdrawn candidate still on the ballot have to be considered valid? I could see that call going either way. I guess it would depend on whether or not Vick’s withdrawal has any legal meaning under state law or not.
I can hardly blame them for wanting to keep her out since she can’t win the GE.
Whatever happens, inter-species animosity tween the white and black rats is always fun to watch.
Of course votes for Vick should count—he was on the ballot, and they voted for him; similarly, votes for Santorum and Gingrich and other former candidates count in the GOP presidential primaries. Because Vick had dropped out, perhaps hd wouldn’t be allowed to win (or, technically, if he won the nomination would be declared vacant and the party could name a replacement), but that’s a different issue altogether.
Two more examples: votes for Mark Foley counted in 2006 after he dropped out but was still on the ballot for the general (although Joe Negron had already been selected as the replacement candidate and would have taken office had Foley won). And in 2000, Mel Carnahan freaking died prior to the election, and votes for him not only counted, but he was declared the winner (which resulted in a vacancy, filled by the governor with Carnahan’s widow).
BTW, AP was counting votes for Vick on primary night, but I guess it was told by someone to give Vick 0 votes. I remember thinking late that night that the black carpetbagger would fall just short of 50%, and being shocked when she was at 52% the next morning, not realized that they had scrubbed the votes for Vick.
On a taxonomical note, fights between black and white rats should be described as intra-species, not inter-species. White and black rats are clearly the same species (Rattus Liberalis), as evidenced by the fact that they can freely produce offspring that itself can reproduce (such as, for example, Barack Obama).
Whatever happens, inter-species animosity tween the white and black rats is always fun to watch.Yup.