Obama's Name Misspelled On 2,000 Ballots

WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 1-14-2008

[Cagey]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- As Florida's primary approaches, there are already reported problems concerning ballots in Central Florida

Some 2,000 absentee ballots in Volusia County have been mailed with Barack Obama's first name misspelled.

On the ballot, the candidate's name is spelled B-A-R-A-K, Local 6 News reported Sunday.

Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall assured people that the voting equipment will be able to read the ballots despite the error and all votes for the misspelled name will count for Obama.

[Cagey]

It's hard to believe this happened in Florida.

[Paleo Conservative]

Sounds more like absent minded ballots.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Did they spell his middle name, H-U-S-S-E-I-N, correctly?

[COBOL2Java]

Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall assured people that the voting equipment will be able to read the ballots despite the error and all votes for the misspelled name will count for Obama Hillary.

There, fixed it.

[Ingtar]

I thought they might have spelled it “O - S - A - M - A”

[scan59]

Obviously a Republican plot to keep the black man down.

[somfphite]

Obama...Osama... it’s one of those Muslum names.

[Tatze]

Yeah.. I don’t know if Democrat voters can noodle that one out.

[Cagey]

LOL! Funny, and a very good possibility.

[dawn53]

I read last week in the St. Pete Times that there was a typo on some ballots...they spelled Rudy’s name “Rudi.”

http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/01/rudi-for-presid.html

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Well, “If it ain’t Barack...don’t fix it”.

[notbuyingit2]

I heard a professional news announcer call him “Osama” instead of “Obama” last week. This was on ABC news on our local Talk Station during a news break. The announcer caught himself and corrected the mistake.

[vikingd00d]

Does it really matter? Didn’t the DNC strip Florida of all its delegates because they moved their primary into January?

[tflabo]

Certainly Hellary’s dirty lawyers will seek to disallow the
“incorrect ballots”. Lawyers and judges are expert for throwing out items on ‘technicalities’.

[Timeout]

Too bad they don’t have him running against H-E-L-L-E-R-Y.

[Constitution Day]

On the ballot, the candidate's name is spelled B-A-R-A-K, Local 6 News reported Sunday.

At least they didn't spell it B-R-A-K!

[GraniteStateConservative]

NFL RB Rudi Johnson for the Bengals spells his name with an “i.” It’s not like Jodi, which definitely is feminine.

[Between the Lines]

I did a google search of BARAK. At the top of the list is http://www.barackobama.com. It seems that they already know that his name is likely to be misspelled so they linked it with Barak.

[Fresh Wind]

This might seem trivial, but if Oh Black Barama loses, you can count on them making a racial issue of this.