The presidential write-ins cast by Lancaster Countians have been tabulated by the good people of the elections bureau:

ABSTAIN
AL GORE
ALAN KEYES
ALFRED E NEUMAN
ALICE COOPER
ALLEN KEYES
ANTHONY M MAURER
ARNOLD SCHWATZENEGGER
BARACK OBAMA/SARAH PALIN (this one came from my voting precinct)
BELL HOOKS
BERNARD DOWNEY
BILL BALDWIN
BILL COSBY
BILL O’REILLY
BOB CAMBELL
BOB CASEY
BRENT HUCKABEE
BRIAN MOORE
BRIAN MOORE/STEWART ALEXANDER
CARLISLE CULLEN
CATHOLIC
CHRISTOPHER L HAEFNER
CHUCK BALDWIN (195 votes; Constitution Party Candidate; did not get enough signatures to be on the PA ballot)
CHUCK NORRIS
CINDY STRAUSBAUGH
COLIN POWELL
CONDOLEEZA RICE/SARAH PALIN
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY (7 votes; Green Party Candidate; was not on the PA ballot)
DAFFY DUCK
DAN RENNINGER
DANA MCCREADY
DANIEL HERNANDEZ
DAVID MERTZ
DENNIS KUCINICH
DONALD TRUMP
DOROTHY CROWDER
DUNCAN HUNTER
ELIZABETH WELCH
ELLI BEAR
FRAN THOMPSON
FRANK K KERLIN JR
FRANK MCENULTY CASTLE
FRED THOMPSON
GEN WESLEY CLARK
GEORGE LUMAS
GOV RENDEL
GOV RICHARDSEN
GREGORY M KESEK JR
HANNAH HEIDI GEHMAN
HARRIS FRANZ
HILLARY CLILNTON (109 votes)
JAMES D HILLARD
JAMES J CRAMER
JAMES R RUPERT JR
JAMES S DAVIS JR
JEFFREY UNTON
JERRY WHITE
JESSE VENTURA
JESUS CHRIST
JIMMY BUFFETT
JOE LIEBERMAN
JOE PATERNO
JOE ROCHE
JOE THE PLUMBER
JOHN BOOTIE
JOHN C WOLF
JOHN DOE
JOHN EDWARDS
JOHN GALT
JOHN K BOOTIE
JOHN KERRY
JOHN MCCAIN PRES/BARACK OBAMA VP
JOHN PAUL
JOHN SALAMONE
JOSH FETTERHOFF
KATIE TRUE
KENNETH N MCCLINTOCK
KYLE SMITH
LOU DOBBS
M ROMNEY
MARC ROHRER
MAZEL PROUD
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
MICHAEL HOFFMAN
MICHAEL HUCKABEE
MICHAEL LEFFLER
MICHAEL P DONNEHY
MICHELLE SMUCKER
MICKEY MOUSE
MICKEY MOUSE/MINNIE MOUSE
MIKE BLOOMBERG
MIKE HUCKABEE (31 votes)
MITT ROMNEY (8 votes)
MORES
MR BRIAN MOORE
NEO PARTY
NEWT GINGRICH
NICK PATEL
NO CONFIDENCE
NO QUALIFIED CANDIDATE
NONE OF THE ABOVE
OBI WAN KENOBI
PAKELIKA
PARIS HILTON
PAT KUHNS
PETE ROSE
PETER LEACH
PHARIS HILTON
PHYLLIS OBERHOLTZER
PRESENT
RAUL PAUL
RICHARD K MCCORD SR
RICHARD L PILSTON
RICHARD NIXON II
ROBERT CASEY JR
ROBERT TROY BOYER
RON PAUL  (452 votes)
RON PAUL/JESSE VENTURA
RON PAUL/SARAH PALIN
RONALD J SIDER
RONALD REAGAN/GERALD FORD
ROSS PEROT
RUDY GIULIANI
RUSSELL JONES
SARAH PALIN
SNOOPY
T BOONE PICKENS
TOM BROKAW
TOM RIDGE
TOM SWIFT
TONY STEWART
TREVOR THE DOG
TROY LEFEVER
W TODD MOGLE
WARREN BUFFET
WESLEY CLARK
WILLIAM BRIAN KRAFT
WILLLIAM SNYDER

If you find any good write-ins in other races, be sure to share them here and let me know.

I am also honored in a way I can’t express to have been written in for a seat in the state House representing the 98th district—where I’ve never lived—meaning I tied for third place with Santa Claus. Let the holidays begin! And watch out Dave Hickernell.