Number of blank Oklahoma presidential ballots increased
November 16, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of voters in Oklahoma who left their presidential ballot blank or wrote in a candidate nearly doubled in the 2016 election compared with 2012, according to data from the Oklahoma State Election Board.
About 15,930 voters did not vote for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or Gary Johnson for president, compared with more than 8,000 Oklahoma ballots that didn't include a vote for president in 2012, The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2eCa0jh ) reported.
State Election Board spokesman Bryan Dean said write-in votes aren't counted in Oklahoma, so it's the same as not voting. T...
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