Keith Judd

Early life

Judd was born May 23, 1958, in Pasadena, California. He is married and has professed to be a Rasta-Christian. Judd has claimed to be a former member of the Federation of Super Heroes.

He has claimed to have run in every United States presidential election since 1996. He ran for mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1993 and 1997 and for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Mexico in 1994.

, Judd was listed as a third-year business student at the University of New Mexico (UNM).

, he claimed to be self-employed as a musician and bandleader and to suffer from bipolar disorder.

Outside of his political campaigns and his music career, Judd has also occupied his time with vexatious litigation. At least two of his appeals have been considered by the Supreme Court of the United States. In a per curiam opinion in 1999, the Court noted that he had filed a dozen frivolous petitions for certiorari and extraordinary writs in the federal courts in the span of a few years.

Crime

In November 1992, Judd was arrested after threatening UNM administrators and student newspaper staff with guns and being questioned by the United States Secret Service related to the visit of a Vice Presidential candidate to the school. Judd was expelled from the school, banned from campus, had two guns confiscated, and was committed to the UNM Hospital's mental health facility.

In 1999, Judd was convicted of two counts of "mailing a threatening communication with intent to extort money or something of value" and sentenced to 210 months (17½ years) in federal prison. The conviction has been falsely connected to litigation involving UNM which was a civil rights complaint he initiated. His actual crime involved postcards that stated "Send the money back now, Keith Judd, Last Chance or Dead." and a package containing a semen-stained Playboy, a knife inside the magazine, a key chain, and his father's military discharge papers. He also sent letters to jurors after his trial. He has appealed his conviction no fewer than 36 times, but each appeal has been dismissed for various reasons.

Judd was released in June 2013 on a supervised release program. In October, his probation office sought a warrant for his arrest for violating the terms of his supervision. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, with another 24 months of supervised release. He has since been released a second time under supervision.

Presidential candidacies

As a perennial candidate, Judd has thrice run for president in the Democratic Party's primaries, in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Each time Judd has managed to qualify to be included on the ballot of at least one Democratic Party primary or caucus.

2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign

In the 2008 presidential election he filed to run as a Democrat in 14 states but only appeared on the ballot in Idaho.

Judd finished third in the May 27, 2008, non-binding Idaho Democratic presidential preference primary with 1.7 percent of the vote, behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. No delegates to the Democratic National Convention were at stake in the primary as Idaho's delegation was determined at the February 5 Democratic caucus, which Judd unsuccessfully contested.

Below is a table of Judd's performance in the primaries.

2012 Democratic presidential primary campaign

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Judd filed to run for president again in the 2012 general election. Running again for the Democratic nomination, Judd only qualified for ballot status in the West Virginia primary. On May 8, 2012, Judd won 41% of the vote against incumbent Barack Obama, a higher percentage of the vote in one state than any other primary opponent of Obama had hitherto achieved in 2012 (a figure later surpassed by John Wolfe, Jr.'s showing in the Arkansas primary).{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/08/meet_keith_judd_the_death_row_inmate_winning_delegates_against_barack_obama.html

Below is a table of Judd's performance in the primaries.

2016 Democratic presidential primary campaign

]] Judd sent a handwritten note to the FEC announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy as a Democrat on August 16, 2014. He filed his official documents with the FEC in September 2015. As of January 1, 2016, Judd had been officially added to the ballot in the Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Texas Democratic Primaries. On January 12, 2016, Judd's paperwork was filed to be on the primary ballot in West Virginia.

Below is a table of the primaries Judd competed in, and his performance in them.

References

References

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22. Little, M.. (May 9, 2012). "Texas inmate wins 41% of vote vs. Obama in West Virginia primary". [[LA Times]].
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