Ballot Access News – Arizona Green Party Choice for U.S. Senate Defeats His Opponents, Even Though He was a Write-in and His Opponents Were On the Ballot

Arizona held its non-presidential primaries on July 30.  Two candidates appeared on the Green Party’s primary ballot for U.S. Senate, Mike Norton and Arturo Hernandez.  Norton was backed by Democratic Party figures and Hernandez was backed by Republican figures.  The Green Party did not approve of either one of them, and endorsed Eduardo Quintana, a long-time Green Party official.

However, Quintana was not on the Green Party primary ballot; instead he was a write-in candidate.  But the Green Party mailed a postcard to every registered Green and asked the voters to write-in Quintana, and it worked.  He received more votes than either of his ballot-listed opponents.

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