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Hill is one of the many write-in candidates who won a seat in this year's council elections. A total of 17 write-in candidates were elected, and in several Houses write-ins won more votes than official candidates...
...every write-in was as shocked as Hill to find they had been elected--several didn't let a lack of formal candidacy stop them from organizing campaigns...
Joseph P. Chase '02 had the same philosophy when he started his write-in campaign...
...Votes received by Byron ("Low Tax") Looper, who is charged with killing his opponent, Tommy Burks. Burks' wife won the race with write-in votes...
...name on the ballot to greet--and unnerve--the voters. Tennessee law mandates that a dead man's name must be removed from the ballot, but that of a man charged with but not convicted of a felony can remain. Burks' wife Charlotte is now running as a Democratic write-in candidate, and some key members of the embarrassed G.O.P. are supporting her. Tommy Burks' only remaining legacy on the ballot is a referendum question he sponsored: a proposed amendment to the state's constitution that would establish a crime victim's bill of rights...