In 1920, socialist Eugene Victor Debs ran his write-in campaign for President from his prison cell | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

“Vote for President Convict #9653” The 1920 Presidential election ended on November 2nd, placing President Harding into the White House. But the story of the day was not on the election of the Ohio senator, but on a candidate who had come in a distant third with a write-in campaign. With just under a million write-in…