It is rare for a write-in candidate to win an election, especially for a major seat. In 2010, moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski ran for re-election.
But the TEA party thought she was not extreme enough, so she got primaried and LOST the Republican primary. Too late to file for the November general election, she ran a write-in campaign for Senate.
And despite a state Supreme Court ruling that only write-in votes that spelled her tricky name correctly would be counted — she WON. In 2016, she again ran for re-election, again back to being a Republican, and this time the party knew better than to humiliate itself with its most extreme element and she is still in the Senate today.
It is rare for a write-in candidate to win an election, especially for a major seat. In 2010, moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski ran for re-election.
But the TEA party thought she was not extreme enough, so she got primaried and LOST the Republican primary. Too late to file for the November general election, she ran a write-in campaign for Senate.
And despite a state Supreme Court ruling that only write-in votes that spelled her tricky name correctly would be counted — she WON. In 2016, she again ran for re-election, again back to being a Republican, and this time the party knew better than to humiliate itself with its most extreme element and she is still in the Senate today.