Keith Russell Judd

Keith Russell Judd (born May 23, 1958) is an American convicted criminal and perennial candidate for political office. His nicknames include "Dark Priest" and "Mtr. President". He claims to have run for president of the United States in every election since 1996. In the 2012 Democratic primary in West Virginia, Judd won 41% of the vote against incumbent Barack Obama, then the highest single-state vote share that any of Obama's primary opponents had achieved in 2012.

Early life Judd was born May 23, 1958, in Pasadena, California. He is married and has professed to be a Rasta-Christian.

, 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.

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. and sentenced to 210 months (17½ years) in federal prison. The conviction has been falsely connected to litigation involving UNM 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. + Primary results Date Contest Votes Place Percent Delegates Source(s) February 5 Idaho caucus 0 4th of 4 0.00 0 The Green PapersTotal 0 0.00 0

2012 Democratic presidential primary campaign

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). While this showing would normally have entitled Judd to delegates at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, state officials expressed some uncertainty as to whether Judd had completed the required formalities, such as filing a slate of delegates and completing paperwork. Judd, who did not qualify for any other primary ballots, contested the ballot count, alleging that ballot workers suppressed the actual total (which he said showed him in the lead) in an effort to cover up an Obama loss.

Below is a table of Judd's performance in the primaries. + Primary results Date Contest Votes Place Percent Delegates Source(s) March 1 West Virginia primary 73,137 2nd of 2 40.65 0 The Green PapersTotal 73,1373rd 0.89 0

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. + Primary results Date Contest Votes Place Percent Delegates Source(s) Feb 9 New Hampshire primary 44 12th of 28 0.02 0 The Green PapersMarch 1 Texas primary 2,569 6th of 8 0.18 0 The Green PapersOklahoma primary 4,386 4th of 7 1.31 0 The Green PapersMarch 5 Louisiana primary 1,357 7th of 10 0.44 0 The Green PapersMarch 15 Missouri primary 288 8th of 9 0.05 0 The Green PapersMay 10 West Virginia primary 4,450 4th of 6 1.85 0 The Green PapersJune 7 California primary 5,506 6th of 7 0.16 0 The Green PapersNorth Dakota caucus0 0.00 0 The Green PapersTotal 20,305 7th 0.07 0 The Green Paper