@AviK
I prefaced my remarks about voting laws/procedures being jurisdictional
If someone attempted to write in a name not registered with the Secretary of the State as a ‘write-in’ candidate, the computerized tabulation reader/scanner would not recognize it or count it as a vote having been cast for that office.
I do believe in school choice. Choose to send your children to public schools and all taxpayers share in the cost of the cost of the kids’ education. Choose to send your children to non-public school, then pay for it your self (or myself for 5 children).
Competition has not forced public schools to get better. In our area they have opened many Charter Schools. They don’t take any special needs kids, and as soon as a child becomes a behavior problem, the kid is dumped back in the public schools. The public schools get stuck with the lowest achievers and those needing the most extra and expensive services.
I have a deaf nephew. The local yeshiva day school refused to accept him (and he would not have been a scholarship kid). He went to public schools and the taxpayers paid for his additional services then on to university. He speaks, hears with hearing aids and can sign if need be. He is a public school principal in his mid 40s.
In NYC there are yeshivas who accept some special needs kids, but out of town, it’s public schools that fill tyhe need. Way back in 1960, my late mother offered to teach special ed late afternoons at the local day school. She taught special ed in the public schools. The Principal refused, he didn’t want any of those children in is school, it would scare away parents of full tuition students.