Naperville Man Runs for President, Gets 27 Votes

NAPERVILLE, IL — While most of us were out voting for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and in a few cases Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, a Naperville man was hoping to get a few votes for himself.

And a few is all he got. 27, to be exact.

Phillip Seeberg, a lead applications analyst at Navistar in Lisle, told the Chicago Tribune that it was a mix of family, co-workers and high school alumni who gave him the votes.

Seeberg decided to run for president after realizing he would not be able to vote for either Trump or Clinton.

“I have often thought that if I wanted to belong to a religion that I agreed with 100 percent, I would be a religion of one,” Seeberg wrote on Facebook. “This year I have begun thinking the same thing about my politics. I don’t feel that I can vote for either Trump or Clinton, so I decided to vote for myself.”

Seeberg ran in six counties, according to his website, and received only a few votes in each, with no votes coming from Kendall or Lake counties, according to the Tribune, but what disappoints him the most is that he only got two votes in DuPage County, where he did the most campaigning.

"I understand how Clinton felt. That was my Hillary Clinton moment. DuPage County was my Michigan," Seeberg told the Tribune

Altogether, Seeberg spent $73 on his campaign.