They don't have to be alive. They don't have to be real. It doesn't have to be a physical entity. You can even try to vote for a SQL injection
Anyway, interesting write-ins in New York City in 2010 include:
For Governor:
- Big Bird
- Constantine
- Christopher Christie (Governor of New Jersey)
- Dan Malloy (Governor of Connecticut)
- Declined Phantom
- Duke Nukem
- Eternal Father & Lord
- Full Public Funding
- Fund Autism
- Gay Marriage
- God Jesus Christ
- I Am Government Rachel E Boschey
- I Object to No Term Limits
- Ish Pee Pee (Unless this is actually a real person ...)
- Lisa Murbowski (some joker referencing the write-in campaign in Alaska, intentionally misspelling Senator Murkowski's name, no doubt)
- Norman H. Finkelstein (Ewwwwww!!!!)
- Nuchem Rosenberg (ultra-Orthodox agitator against child abuse)
- Pimky & the Brain
- T. Party
- The Hippo at the Bronx
- The Hoff (don't know what this is ...)
- William Marly Tweed (a mistake for the last name of the man better known as Boss Tweed
- A (3 votes ...)
- Boycott Parthed Israel! (shows the level of education and intelligence among that crowd ...)
- D-Bag
- Eternal Father & Lord
- European America
- Feisal Rauf (the imam-to-be at that controversial mosque)
- Full Public Funding
- Gay Marriage
- Ham Sandwich
- Harpo Marx
- Ish Pee Pee (again)
- Jeffrey Lebowski
- Jimmy McMillan (5 votes, because the rent is too ... damn ... high)
- King Kong
- Lisa Murkowstz (same joker, varying)
- Lizard People (hell yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God
- Medicare for All
- Miss Peggy
- Mort Zucker-man (because of the spelling)
- Noam Chousky
- Rachel Maddow of MSNBC
- Ron Paul (because you gotta vote for him)
- Single Payer
- Barack H. Obama
- Bernard Madroff
- Captain Kirk
- Caroline Kennedy (got like 18 votes under various name-spellings; guess she and her family were mad she wasn't appointed)
- Free Palestine
- Full Public Funding
- HIS HOLINESS THE DALILAMA
- Jack the Pumpkin King
- Lady Ga Ga
- None of the Foregoing (that's an amusing spelling)
- RN
- (EXPLETIVE) Chanders (shame on New York for censoring!!!)
- LEGAIIZE MARIIIANA
- LEARNED HLND (if intended to be Learned Hand, amusing)
- Lisa Munkowski (someone still having fun)
- My Dog Karma
- My Dog Riley
- Non English Character (obviously it was actually some non-English character, shame on them for not letting Unicode handle it if possible)
- Overturn Citizens United
- Pee Wee Herman
- Revolution
- RX
- Snake People
- Tim Lincicum
- Bull Shit! (if they didn't censor that ...)
- Immanuel Kant Liberal
- Anyme But
- Tony Soprano
- Axl Rose
- Comeone Qualifid
- Fiscus Tree
- Fuhrer Williamsburg (heh)
- Pupa Rabi (this was for Supreme Court, so maybe they want his Beit Din?)
- Rabbi Judu Levin (please let this not have been an attempt to vote for Yehuda Levin ...)
- Bernard Goetz
- Biggie Smalls
- Bono the Boston Terrier
- Butt Head
- Dick Hertz
- Dick Hurtz
- Frank Zappa
- MR. X
- OBI-WAN-KENOBI
- RON JEREMY
- SCUM
- THE PEOPLE
- YODA
- SCREW GARY ACKERMAN (for Ackerman's seat in Congress)
- Kodos (Don't blame him/her!)
- George Habash (seriously??? And yet no votes for Meir Kahane?????)
- George Orwell
- Grimm
- TRANNY NAMED KRISTEN
- LORD VOLDEMORT
- JUDGE REINHOLD (to be a judge, of course)
- LIZARD PEOPLE (3 votes, hell yes I loves NYC)
- NO SMOKING
- NO LAWYERS
- NOT HER
- OFF THE PIG
- ROBERT DROP THE STUDENTS (was this an attempted SQL injection; I hope so ...)
- YASSER ARAFAT
- XENA QUEEN OF AMAZON
- YO MAMA!
- FIDEL CASTRO
- BOGIE LOWENSTEIN (From 10 things I hate about you, unless it's actually a real name)
- ADOLF HITLER (Okay, not so amusing)
- 8 BALL
- AMANDA HUGNKISS
- HEYWOOD JABLOME
- HORSETHIEF
- JACK KINGHOFF
- LORD SCROTUMNUS
- MARIO BROS
- MATZO BALL
- MIKE HUNT
- SPONGE BOB
- SQUEAKY THE CAT
- UNDER DOG
- VOLTRON
- YOSEMITE SAM
- HIGG S. BOSON
- JOEL TEITELBAUM (But why no votes for Schneerson???)
- WILLIAM LLYOD GARRISON
- ANTI-MCMAHON B/C HE VOTED AGAINST H.C. BILL
- I SMOKE I VOTE
- INANIMATE CARBON ROD
