# If I write in "Leo Bloom" as my choice for president, that data is part of the record, right?

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**Created:** [November 7, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-write-in-leo-bloom-as-my-choice-for-president-that-data-is-part-of-the-record-right/640157 "2012-11-07T00:10:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-write-in-leo-bloom-as-my-choice-for-president-that-data-is-part-of-the-record-right/640157/21 "2012-11-11T17:11:08Z")

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I always tell people I wrote in Pat Paulson.

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-write-in-leo-bloom-as-my-choice-for-president-that-data-is-part-of-the-record-right/640157/22 "2012-11-11T19:41:15Z")

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Alaska has a senator who won as a write in candidate but there was a short court fight about her winning.

> **[Lisa Murkowski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski)**
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> Lisa Ann Murkowski (/mɜːrˈkaʊskiː/ mur-KOW-skee; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator representing Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. She is the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman, after Susan Collins of Maine. She became dean of Alaska's Congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.
> Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to ...

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