A federal inmate serving time in Texas won more than 40 percent of the vote in the West Virginia Democratic primary election, and he ended up close to Mitt Romney's total on the Republican side.
Keith Judd won 41 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for president. Barack Obama won the race with 59 percent.
In total votes, Obama won 102,028 and Judd had 69,799. On the Republican side, Romney won with 72,818, or 71 percent of the vote.
Judd is serving time in the Beaumont, Texas, Federal Correctional Institution for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999, according to media reports.
Judd has run for president in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008, according to Project Vote Smart.
Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, Secretary of State spokesman Jake Glance told The Associated Press.
Normally, attracting at least 15 percent of the vote would qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, the AP reported. West Virginia Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said that because nobody filed to be a delegate for Judd, that won't happen. Judd also failed to file required paperwork, Scarbro told the AP.
As of this morning, Judd had won the race in eight of West Virginia's 55 counties, according to unofficial results listed on the Secretary of State's website. He won more than 50 percent of the vote in Boone, Clay, Gilmer, Hardy, Logan, Mingo, Webster and Wyoming counties. The Secretary of State's website had no results listed for 14 counties as of 8:30 a.m.
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