Rensselaer County, N.Y., sent out absentee ballots with a big ol’ mistake.
The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as “Barack Osama” and “John McCain.” In the United States, the best-known individual named Osama is Osama bin Laden, leader of the al Qaida terrorist group behind the 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City….
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.
In a report in the Times Union, McDonough called the gaffe “an honest mistake.”
Hmm, let’s see… the S and B keys aren’t exactly next to each other on a standard U.S. keyboard layout. “Honest mistake?” Nope, try again!
