Imagine a state with former Apple CEO Steve Jobs as governor, talk show host Oprah Winfrey as lieutenant governor and Donald Duck as secretary of state.

Crazy? Not to 580 voters in Warren County.

Write-in votes this year for celebrities, cartoon characters, pop singers, presidential hopefuls, candidates elsewhere and other miscellaneous references were up more than 62 percent from 2007, when 308 people wrote in their ideal choices.

Jobs, who died Oct. 5, picked up votes for governor and lieutenant governor, according to printouts made available after the Nov. 8 election. Winfrey, a Kosciusko native, won votes for three offices — lieutenant governor, state auditor and state treasurer. Also with a vote for treasurer was Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly.

The race for commissioner of agriculture and commerce pulled 12 write-ins, among them Vicksburg Post sports writer Ernest Bowker, with five, and one vote for SpongeBob Squarepants, the star of Nickelodeon’s long-running animated series.

Donald Duck easily out-polled his cartoon counterparts, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck and Tweety, usually big vote-getters. He garnered 10 votes for various state and local offices, while Mickey got but four — three for governor and one for sheriff. Daffy settled for a single vote for lieutenant governor, and Tweety managed the same for district attorney.

Staying popular among voters who went against major parties — and minor ones, too — were Joe Blow, Anybody Else, None of the Above, and No One. Gov. Haley Barbour, who wraps up his second term in January, received but one write-in, for lieutenant governor.

Attorney General Jim Hood survived another Republican wave in 2011, remaining the state’s lone Democrat in statewide office. But, Batman and presidential hopeful Ron Paul appeared as write-ins locally.

Even as Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann of Vicksburg won a second term without opposition last week, he picked up 73 write-in opponents, more than any statewide office on Warren County’s ballot. Joining the erstwhile duck in that number were Jon Doe, Joe Blow, state Rep. George Flaggs of Vicskburg and John A. Amos — perhaps a reference to the character movie actor, who also got a vote against Flaggs in District 55.

Locally, state Sen. Briggs Hopson III breezed to a second term with no opponent. Yet, 75 write-in votes included Winfrey, legendary R&B troubadour James Brown, creepy Jason Voorhees from the “Friday the 13th” films and Snoopy, the lovable beagle from the Peanuts gang.

Former supermodel Kathy Ireland plucked a vote in this year’s hard-fought tax collector’s race. Pop singer Kylie Minogue managed one for northern district justice court judge.

In county supervisor races, vanquished District 1 incumbent David McDonald got six votes last week while District 2’s race was the only race on the ballot without a single write-in. George Bush was one of re-elected District 3 Supervisor Charles Selmon’s 10 opponents, as was former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier, who died the day before the election.

Other local notables getting unexpected support were former Vicksburg Post executive editor Charlie Mitchell — for district attorney and lieutenant governor — and former Old Court House Museum curator Gordon Cotton, who got votes for District 4 supervisor and southern district justice court judge.