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20 Facts About Keith Judd

1.

Keith Russell Judd was born on May 23,1958 and is an American convicted criminal and perennial candidate for political office.

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Keith Judd is married and has professed to be a Rasta-Christian.

3.

Keith Judd has claimed to be a former member of the Federation of Super Heroes.

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Keith Judd has claimed to have run in every United States presidential election since 1996.

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Keith Judd ran for mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1993 and 1997 and for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Mexico in 1994.

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Outside of his political campaigns and his music career, Keith Judd has occupied his time with vexatious litigation.

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In November 1992, Keith 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.

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Keith Judd was expelled from the school, banned from campus, had two guns confiscated and was committed to the UNM Hospital's mental health facility.

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In 1999, Keith 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 in federal prison.

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Keith Judd has appealed his conviction no fewer than 36 times, but each appeal has been dismissed for various reasons.

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Keith Judd was released in June 2013 on a supervised release program.

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Keith Judd was sentenced to 12 months in prison, with another 24 months of supervised release.

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Keith Judd has since been released a second time under supervision.

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Each time Keith Judd has managed to qualify to be included on the ballot of at least one Democratic Party primary or caucus.

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Keith 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.

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Keith Judd filed to run for president again in the 2012 general election.

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Keith Judd, who did not qualify for any other primary ballots, contested the ballot count, alleging that ballot workers suppressed the actual total in an effort to cover up an Obama loss.

18.

Keith Judd sent a handwritten note to the FEC announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy as a Democrat on August 16,2014.

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Keith Judd filed his official documents with the FEC in September 2015.

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On January 12,2016, Keith Judd's paperwork was filed to be on the primary ballot in West Virginia.