COBB COUNTY - Although Tim Lee was voters' clear choice for Cobb Chairman on July 20, there were 691 write-in votes for the job.

Commissioner Helen Goreham led among the write-ins, with 19 votes. Commissioner Bob Ott and former Chairman Sam Olens tied with eight write-in votes, and Commissioner Woody Thompson got seven.

Olens resigned from the chairman's post in late March to run for Georgia's attorney general. His GOP runoff opponent Preston Smith got two votes, and Max Wood, who was a primary opponent of Olens', got one write-in as Cobb's chairman.

And voters' dissatisfaction with the printed choice of either Tim Lee or Larry Savage for chairman can be seen in the random write-ins, with a total 21 such votes essentially for anyone else. Some of those write-ins included: "None of the Above" with five votes, "Anyone Else" with four votes, "Me" with four votes, "No One" with two votes, and "Incumbents Stink," "Anyone But Lee," "John Q Anybodyelse," "N/A" and "No Confidence" each with one vote.

Other actual people receiving write-in votes in the chairman's race were anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King, and northeast Cobb Commission candidates Earl Stine and Stephen Moon, each of whom got two write-in votes.

Northeast Commission candidate JoAnn Birrell got one write-in vote in the chairman's race. Birrell and Stine will face off in an Aug. 10 runoff for the commission seat.

Cobb School Board candidate Bill Borden and northwest Commission candidate Leonard Church each got two votes in the chairman's race. Both lost their bids for elective office in the July 20 primary.

Other local politicians getting write-in votes were Lindsey Tippens and Sheila Jones, each with one. Former politicians Buddy Darden, Ernest Barrett, Jimmy Carter and Newt Gingrich each received one write-in vote.

The county's planning commission chairman, Murray Homan, also received one vote, as did Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art Director Sally Macaulay and local victims' rights activist Gordon Rondeau.

Mickey Mouse led the race among fictional characters, with 13 votes. Other characters included Daffy Duck with three votes and Batman, Lord Voldemort, Master Yoda, Sonic the Hedgehog and Donald Duck each with one vote.

Cobb's chairman race also got the celebrity treatment, with the following public figures each receiving one write-in vote: soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, country singer Dolly "Partin," Yankees baseball player "Derrek" Jeter, late comedian Richard Pryor, actor Tom Cruise, late baseball lengend Ty Cobb, late night talk show host David Letterman, Braves baseball player Chipper Jones and Oprah Winfrey.

Residents' choices also verged on the funny and disturbing sides of the spectrum, with Cobb Salad, Pookie, Saddam Hussien and Ted Nugent each receiving one vote.