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Line 32: After prison inmate [[Keith Judd]] won 41 percent against President Obama in the [[West Virginia]] Democratic primary, Ely was featured in a ''[[Politico]]'' article as "an aspiring Keith Judd".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/05/meet-bob-ely-an-aspiring-keith-judd-123026.html|title=Meet Bob Ely, an aspiring Keith Judd|last=Mahtesian|first=Charlie|date=May 10, 2012|work=[[Politico]]|access-date=May 26, 2012}}</ref> He paid $2,500 to appear on the May 29 Texas primary ballot, and was listed alongside Obama, Wolfe, and historian Darcy Richardson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/12/15/texas-democratic-presidential-primary-ballot-has-three-candidates-so-far/|title=Texas Democratic Presidential Primary Ballot Has Three Candidates So Far|last=Winger|first=Richard|date=December 15, 2011|work=[[Ballot Access News]]|access-date=May 26, 2012}}</ref> A contributor to ''The Hays Free Press'' of [[Hays County, Texas]] speculated that some Texas Democrats may vote for Ely, "on the hopes he is kin to [[Joe Ely]], who belts out good songs on the radio."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://haysfreepress.com/2012/05/16/election-predictions-local-and-not-so-local/|title=Election predictions: Local and not-so-local|last=Barton|first=Bob|date=May 16, 2012|work=The Hays Free Press|access-date=May 26, 2012}}</ref> Ely won about 2.4 percent of the vote in Texas and received a plurality in [[King County, Texas|King]] and [[Loving County, Texas|Loving]] counties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/Primary/TX|title=Election Map 2012: Live Voting Results – TX|work=[[Politico]]|access-date=June 6, 2012}}</ref> === 2020 presidential campaign === In November 2019, Ely got on the ballot in several states for the 2020 presidential primary, running as a Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/voters/nh-presidential-candidate-lineup/article_73a381ff-57a7-5170-a620-c0f0b5a2b50e.html|title=2020 NH presidential candidate lineup|newspaper=New Hampshire Union Leader|last1=Landrigan|first1=Kevin|date=November 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20191202/herman-so-far-trump-missing-from-texas-primary-ballot|title=Herman: So far, Trump missing from Texas primary ballot|website=Statesman|last1=Herman|first1=Ken|date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> In the [[2020 New Hampshire Republican primary]], Ely received 65 total votes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/11/us/elections/results-new-hampshire-republican-primary.html|title=Live Results: New Hampshire Republican Primary|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | |||