The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
Federal inmate number 11593-051, or Keith Russell Judd as he is also known, has run for president on several occasions, most recently taking votes away from President Barack Obama in the Democratic primary in West Virginia. (Associated Press file photo)
By LAWRENCE MESSINA, Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.
The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
Judd has run for president in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008, according to Project Vote Smart.
Voters in other states showed their displeasure with Obama in Democratic primaries last March.
In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protestor Randall Terry got 18 percent of the primary vote. A lawyer from Tennessee, John Wolfe, pulled nearly 18,000 votes in the Louisiana primary.
In Alabama, 18 percent of Democratic voters chose "uncommitted" in the primary rather than vote for Obama.