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“The voter has got to be pretty specific” in indicating his choice for a write-in candidate, according to a veteran electionwatcher who offered an opinion on write-in candidacies earlier this month. “If they are not, it’s easy to get a write-in ballot challenged successfully.”
Despite that cautionary note, two candidates for supervisor in next Tuesday’s election, A1 Henry in Jackson District and Sharon Kilpatrick in StonewallHawthome, are hoping that voters will go to the extra trouble and specify their names when they cast their ballots.
Ruth Kilby, Rappahannock’s Registrar of Voters, explained the procedure, which is governed by specific guidelines from the state Board of Elections.
At the bottom of the listing of names of candidates for supervisor, within the same area where the other candidates’ names appear, the voter must write in the name of the person for whom he wishes to vote. To the left of that name, under the printed boxes which appear for each other candidate, the voter must draw in a box, then mark it with an “X.”
In other words, Mrs. Kilby said, it’s just like voting for one of the names printed on the ballot, except the name and box must be “written in” by the voter. She cautioned that it is important that the name appear in the proper area of the ballot, and that no boxes for other candidates for that office be marked.
At the end of the day, after the polls close, the write-in ballots are counted *tjust like all the
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