That would be hard in almost any city in this country, but casting a write-in vote is so cumbersome in New York that the city's Board of Elections has posted a video on its Web site demonstrating how it is done.
Kennedy had artfully arranged big-band style spots for several of the players – viola, cello, the versatile veteran bass player Yaron Stavi – often with Arabic tonalities legitimately casting a spell over the original, written in the cultural melting pot of Venice.
I cast a write-in ballot for George Herbert Walker Bush, for whom I have an abiding affection.
Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband).
And Mr. Green responded indirectly to the suggestion by Gov. George E. Pataki that New Yorkers cast a write-in vote for Mr. Giuliani.
"I voted for the person I thought would be the best President," Cruz said, adding that he cast a write-in vote.
One voter, disgusted with the Democrats, planned to cast a write-in vote for Lou Dobbs; another, fed up with the Republicans, planned to write-in for either Snoopy or T. Boone Pickens.
"He's an attractive candidate," said Tim Gibson of Clive, Iowa, 59, who stood in line at the straw poll, waiting to cast a write-in vote for Mr. Perry, who won 4 percent of the vote.
His name will not be on the ballot, but Americans for Perry, the independent group financed by several friends and political associates, has been urging supporters to cast a write-in ballot for him.
Mr. Phillips asked in the message: "Can a service member vote in FL (especially after Nov. 7); i.e., can a sailor on the USS Tarawa cast a write-in vote November 10?" In his e-mail response, Mr. Wright cited Florida law, which makes clear that late voting is illegal.
Then this person said, 'Why did you support him?' And McCain said, 'It was my obligation as a Republican to support the Republican candidate.' And the person said, 'Did you vote for him?' And McCain said, 'No.' " Ms. Huffington said in her Monday blog posting that Cindy McCain, Mr. McCain's wife, who was also at the dinner, told her that she had cast a write-in vote for her husband in 2000.
