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Next week Graham will officially launch a "sticker campaign" against Alvin Thompson, the victor in last week's primary. This will require voters to affix stickers bearing Graham's name and address to their ballots, a tactic that requires much greater effort on the part of her campaign organization than a traditional contest would have...
Meanwhile, Thompson said Graham's plans were her business, but added that none of the presidential nominees ran on stickers against Michael Dukakis, nor would Dukakis wage a sticker campaign against George Bush if he lost in November...
Johnson said the sticker effort for Bolling--who ran such a campaign because he failed to turn in his nomination papers on time--faced several problems: different parts of the district used several different kinds of ballots with different procedures for write-in voting; some voting machines had write-in slots too high for handicapped or elderly voters to reach; and, as in Graham's district, the turnout set record lows at around 15 percent...
Borges said Albano's 1984 campaign risked $25,000 in borrowed money and two months of work for a sticker campaign. Albano opted for a sticker effort in the general election, because he had placed second in a three-way primary--only 163 votes behind the leader, Piro--and because Piro was about to face trial on corruption charges...
...There are some success stories," said Borges, who now advises other candidates on sticker campaigns. But, he added, they are few and far between...