In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for “Barack Osama.”
The typographical terror error was first reported by the Times Union of Albany.
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.
This is not “human error” or a typo. B and S are far apart on the keyboard. And this is the sort of thing that gets checked and re-checked when proof reading.
Such cheap tactics were expected, of course, but not from election officials. There’s more of this sort of thing coming – disenfranchising voters, disparaging innuendos, rigged voting machines.