Libertarian candidate Pamela Brown gets historic vote total

Pamela Brown was a candidate in the November 2, 2010 election for Lieutenant Governor of California. Currently, the California Secretary of State’s website shows her receiving 573,114 votes. That is the second-highest vote count in history for a Libertarian running against both a Republican and a Democrat. (The highest was Ed Clark’s 1980 presidential candidacy. He received about 921,000 votes.)