by Deputy Diva

The City of Troy, New York should be highly embarrassed and if not, allow me to embarrass you right here for this nonsense.  As highly publicized as this Presidential race is, in this day and age no one realized that the hundreds of absentee ballots that were printed first and THEN mailed to hundreds of voters had the Democratic Nominee’s name wrong?

This is what taxpayers’ money goes to - Incompetant people at the Board of Elections who allow gross errors like this?  

In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for “Barack Osama.”

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 person named Osama is Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaida terrorist group.

Commissioners for the Rensselaer County Board of Elections say they regret the error but do not acknowledge in a statement exactly what the error is.

The botched ballots were first reported by the Times-Union of Albany.  SOURCE

Are you Serious?