Saturday, October 11, 2008

This is getting old.





(CNN) — Some are calling it a Freudian slip. Everyone’s calling it a big mistake.

Hundreds of absentee ballots sent to voters in New York State’s Rensselaer County, near Albany, were printed with Barack Obama’s last name spelled as “Osama," the Albany Times Union reports.

County elections officials tell the newspaper that it was a typo that made it by three rounds of proof-readers. They also said the error affected just a few hundred voters, and that they will re-send corrected ballots on request. "



I heard on the news that a ballot checked for Barack Osama would be counted for Obama, but a ballot with his name corrected by the voter would be disquilified.

1 comment:

Sara Doane said...

That is rediculous! The "b" and "s" are a good distance from eachother on a keyboard. I think we can all be sure that wasn't an accident.