A Rutgers University student was sworn in earlier this month as a member of the Middlesex County Republican Committee, "a position to which he was unanimously elected with one vote, his own, New Brunswick Today reported.

Nineteen-year-old Asad Asif wrote his name in as a candidate for a Republican councilman with no intention of winning.

"It was kind of like the 'Mickey Mouse vote,' where people write in stupid names when they vote for president," Asad Asif told New Brunswick Today." I wanted to do the same thing, and since there was no real candidate in the slot, I decided to write myself in."

Since Asif's ballot was the only one that included a vote for the Committeeman position for Old Bridge's Ward 6, District 7, he took office three days later.

Asif is now a voting member of both the Middlesex County Republican Organization (MCRO) and Old Bridge Republican Committee. Each group helps decide which candidates get the official 'party line' endorsement in local, county, legislative and statewide elections," New Brunswick Today reported.

Although the third-year student was sworn in to the Republican committee, he reportedly does not affiliate himself too strongly with a single party. He also "does not entirely believe in the position he has accepted," New Brunswick Today reported.

"If I'm going to donate my time, it'll be to my religion or to an actual charity that helps people," Asif said.

However, he said he is confident in his abilities to perform his duty as a member of the County Committee.

The Middlesex County Committee has more than a thousand seats, and less than half of the Republican seats are filled, according to the MCRO's Chairman, State Senator Sam Thompson of Old Bridge.

The Democratic Committee has a higher percentage of seats filled than the Republicans do.

Asif is not the only member to win a seat by writing himself in, according to New Brunswick Republican Organization President Joy Sheehan.

Currently, only seven members make up the Republican committee including a couple who won by writing themselves in, Sheehan said.