"We knew that we weren't going to be able to run a big campaign," Charles Jay of Hollywood, Fla., told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Monday. "It wasn't like I had a ground team or anything."

Jay, 47, earned the votes by being listed on the ballot in three states: Florida, Colorado and Tennessee. The sports consultant, broadcaster and columnist says he clinched the party's nomination by acclamation during a convention held entirely online.

"I was just surfing around one day on the Internet and happened to come upon their Web site," he told the newspaper. "I said, 'All right, this might be fun, let me put my hat in the ring to run for this nomination.'"

But after also running as a fringe party candidate in 2004, he says this may be his last run.

"This kind of a race is not in my future. I would not do it this way again," he told the Sun-Sentinel.