Nominating himself on ballot in New Jersey won him a spot on the Democratic county committee seat

FLEMINGTON — A local man who always writes his name in for open local seats on Democrat primary ballots got a surprise this year. “This time I actually got a letter saying I won,” Harry Gerdes told Politico.com. According to the report, Gerdes’ vote for himself qualified him for a place on the general election ballot…

A New Jersey resident accidentally won a Democratic county committee seat after jokingly writing himself in on the ballot. Whenever he votes, Flemington, N.J., resident Harry Gerdes, 26, writes himself into every open seat for local elections, “kind of as a joke,” he told Politico. Gerdes, an IT worker and Sen. Bernie Sanders supporter, voted in…