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Well That Didn't Take Long : Problems Voting for Obama (or Should I say Osama)

18:05 H | Topics: New York - US Presidential Race 2008

Absentee voters in upstate New York just got their ballots and Barack Obama isn't on the ballot. Barack Osama is though. No I didn't type wrong pero someone did and it needs to be fixed, stat.

The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as "Barack Osama" and "John McCain."...The elections office faxed a statement in which the two commissioners, Democrat Edward McDonough and Republican Larry Bugbee, said they regret the error but never acknowledge what the error was.

"It's human error, it's very unfortunate, it's an embarrassment to our office, obviously," McDonough said in a later phone interview. "We wish we could turn back the clock, but we can't."

When they discovered the mistake, officials shredded the remaining "Osama" ballots and mailed correct versions to the roughly 300 people who had already received them. McDonough said the "Osama" mistake was made in only one of the 13 ballot versions mailed throughout the county, located east of the state capital of Albany.

Pero what will happen if people mailed "Osama" ballots? Will those votes be counted for Barack Obama or will they be thrown out?

Voters who received both versions will be allowed to send in either one and have it counted, McDonough said.

Obama spokesman Blake Zeff said the campaign is "glad officials are working to correct this error and we assume it won't happen again."

Don't assume anything.

Via / Newsweek with special gracias to the twittersphere!

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