Barack Obama “accidentally” listed as Barack Osama on some absentee ballots.
How long until we start seeing sample ballots handed out to voters marked “Barack Hussein Osama”?
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Also, as a graphic designer, I want to say BULLSHIT. I mean, I sent out business cards this morning for print that went through TWO rounds of approval for most people, THREE for some folks, on the copy alone. (Three rounds for design as well.) That meant that people had their eyeballs on the business cards about five times before they got sent to the printers. A ballot should have CRAZY amounts of eyes on it for legal reasons, and whatnot, so I REALLY doubt that they got that far along without somebody noticing that the major Democratic candidate’s name was coincidentally spelled to look like “Osama.”
I wish I could see the ballot in question to see if they’d used sentence case or all-caps. One thing they tell you in design school, if you study typography is that people identify words as blocks, and a way people differentiate words is by checking the ascenders and descenders of letter forms. Obama is clearly different than Osama, because the lowercase B has an ascender that spikes at the start of the word. If OBAMA was in all caps, it would be harder to pick out from OSAMA but still recognisably different.
I’m just saying from my perspective as a graphic designer, this is not an easy mistake to slip through, or a simple typo.
Pixelfish- You think graphic design is actually considered in ballot design? Just look at what happened in Florida during the 2000 election, sheesh. (Pentagram actually did a great poster about this issue.)
Typo? There were quite a few other letters that could have been substituted. Freudian slip maybe. I believe that it slipped past the proofreaders though. Chances are they were looking closer at referendum texts and other such, or even lower level candidates. I mean, who’d suspect that the presidential candidates’ names would be misspelled.
They had better not invalidate the votes of anyone who innocently corrects the typo for altering the ballot, though!
Hey, speaking of terrorists-
It’s becoming more and more apparent that Track Palin and his buddies from his High School (Not Wasilla High School, but Burchell - the continuation school for “troubled” students) decided to cut the brake lines on Elementary School buses in an attempt to kill the town’s school children in a Beslan-style massacre.
I don’t want to seem judgmental, but I think that trying to send large groups of tiny children to their violent deaths is a bad thing.
Shouldn’t people who do stuff like that be tried as terrorists - or at least adults, and should they be allowed to serve in the military?
On a related note, Good ‘ol pregnant Bristol Palin’s babydaddy is also a student at Burchell. Bristol hasn’t attended classes on any campus for almost two years due her mono and sperm infections.
(I realize that the people on this board are above this type of shit-slinging, but I’m not. The Republicans aren’t either - see thread title. I’m not interested in losing another one of these elections standing politely by while the Pubes lie to their ignorant sheeple - especially when we have SO MUCH TRUTH ON OUR SIDE!)
I have never seen a typo on a ballot, which is pretty phenomenal considering how common typos and misspellings are nowadays.
Given that the Democratic election official said that it was a typo, and that three separate proofreaders missed it, how likely does it really seem that this was an evil plot by us Republicans.
Or maybe the Democrat is a PUMA? 
Dana: Or maybe he’s dumb enough to give them the benefit of the doubt despite Repelicans being shameless, moralless assholes?
Or maybe you just have more class?
It could be an innocent mistake, both are arabic names which sound alike….
Note: Obama has not one percent of african american blood in him. He is half-white and 47% arab.
Um…KLH. Kenya is in East Africa, which makes it a nation in…AFRICA. Kenya is not in the Arabic part of Africa and is a Christian nation. Google it you, dunce, and stop listening to Rush.
Of course, I do like the 47%. How exactly do you get 47%?
“They had better not invalidate the votes of anyone who innocently corrects the typo for altering the ballot, though!”
Which does bring up the question of whether or not an unaltered ballot would be valid. You’d be voting for a ticket that, as it appears on the ballot, doesn’t exist. Wasn’t there a court case back in 2004 involving a popular write-in candidate with a Greek surname and how to tabulate the votes that were obviously for him but had misspelled his name in various new and interesting ways?
I love the “OMG He’s a SECRET ARAB!” smear. I mean, it’s so patently ridiculous if you know even the most basic information about Kenya (or are willing to look it up) and yet Rush has managed to get hundreds of complete morons who can’t work Teh Google to spread out and parrot it.
If Kenya is a majority-Muslim country, somehow the CIA managed to miss it. How embarrassing.
I mean, seriously, my friends, we’re talking about our racist wingnuts here. They really don’t<ii> have to use the Google b/c they just <i>know
Have they seen pictures of Kenyans? Like when they win the marathons? Or on the Google/wiki page? Is anyone seriously going to tell me they don’t think those people look BLACK?
Is there any possible way that that teacher in FL could come up with his witty acronym for CHANGE if he didn’t KNOW IN HIS BONES that B. Hussein is BLACK? It just wouldn’t make sense if Barry was Arabian.
As much as I hate bringing any of this shit up, the fact is we have racist people in this country and they take one look at Tiger and Barack and say “n*ggers”. They don’t say “Towelheads”.
The B. Hussein is a Secret Arab is just a bonus lie to tack onto the fact that he really is a black man. It gives a little cover to those bright enough to be embarrassed at admitting their racism in public.
Rebecca, the other 3% must be the SUPERPOWER BLACKAZOIDIAN GENE that causes all decent Reaganesque candidates to drop out of a race against Barry before the race even starts so that he only faces crappy candidates like Jack Ryan, Alan Keyes and John POW McCain.
If a middle name like “Hussein” proves that someone is an Arab, than I guess the majority of Americans are Jewish, seeing that names like “John” and “Sarah” are so common…
The election is only about three weeks away. Should start happening just any minute now.