Charles Jay (born 1960) is the Presidential nominee of the United States Boston Tea Party in the 2008 election. He was the presidential nominee of the Personal Choice Party in the 2004 election, achieving ballot status in Utah, and received 946 votes in the general election, coming in third from last.

A former member of the U.S. Libertarian Party, he stepped down from the race for the Vice Presidential nomination to the 2004 ballot to run as for President under the Personal Choice Party banner. His vice presidential candidate was Marilyn Chambers, a porn star famous since the 1970s.

Jay has a B.A. in business from the University of Miami, and has worked in the sport of boxing as a manager and spokesman, among other positions.

On Monday, June 16, 2008, Jay won the Boston Tea Party's presidential nomination at its nomination convention that was held on the national party's website online and will again be the candidate of the Personal Choice Party.

Currently Jay is on the ballot in Florida, Tennessee, and Colorado. Write-in registration work naming electors has been completed in Montana and Arizona. Including states with no pre-election registration for write-in candidates, Jay is on the ballot or may be written in within states with a total of 121 electors.

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External references

• Politics1 bio
• Official Federal Election Commission Report
• Charles Jay - official campaign site