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It may be legally possible to write-in a candidate's name in the United States where it doesn't appear on a ballot, but whether or not that vote gets counted is another matter. And as a write-in candidate, trying to win a nomination or democratically elected post in America is about like Don Quixote's mission to bring back chivalric values -- they have virtually no chance.

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