Editor:
According to the DailyPaul.com, Ron Paul is a certified write-in candidate for president in California (among other states). So if you write in Ron Paul for president, your vote will be counted — as was the case in 2008, when Paul received 17,006 write-in votes in California.
Obama will win California by a wide margin. Your vote won't help or change that, so there's no need to waste it on a "lesser evil." Vote for who you like best. If that's Ron Paul and his pro-peace, anti-establishment message write him in!
Thomas M. Sipos
Santa Monica
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 31, 2012. Read the original PDF.