Texas Prison Inmate to Appear on Idaho Primary Ballot as Democratic Presidential Candidate

• Keith Russell Judd who is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999 will appear as a Democratic Presidential candidate on Idaho's May 27, 2008 primary ballot despite the fact he is not scheduled to be released from prison until 2013.
• Keith Russell Judd, age 49, met Idaho's ballot requirements by submitting a notarized form and paying a $1,000 fee.
• This is the second time Judd has had his name on the ballot. He was a write in candidate in 2004 but, did not receive any votes.
• The AP reports that prison officials told the state elections office that Judd sent out about 14 checks to states seeking to get on the presidential election ballot and about half had been returned. He qualified as a write-in candidate in Kentucky, California, Indiana and Florida, but Idaho apparently is the only state where his name will appear on the ballot.

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