The answer was: "No. Duggan has two distinct advantages over Conyers. Duggan had a lot of financial backers, and he is in his right mind."
A write-in election for Conyers would have required his supporters to know how to write and correctly spell his name, although correct spelling meant nothing 3 years ago in Alaska. Much easier in Detroit to just flip the lever for the “D” and continue flipping the same lever as many times as you can.