A federal prison inmate got himself listed on the ballot for Idaho’s May 27 primary as a Democratic presidential candidate, the state’s top election official said. As a result, Democratic voters will be able to choose among Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keith Russell Judd. Judd is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Judd, 49, got on the ballot by submitting a notarized form and paying the required $1,000 fee. But no matter how many votes he gets, he won’t get any national convention delegates. Idaho’s delegates are chosen at party caucuses. The Associated Press
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