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Potato, Po-tah-to...Terrorist

Not helping the confusion about Obama's "bloodlines"...via AP:

TROY, N.Y. - Osama, Obama? What's the difference? Not much, in an upstate New York county where hundreds of voters were sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."

Oops.

Hundreds of absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as "Barack Osama" and "John McCain."

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

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

-- Evie Stone

h/t Margot Adler

3:56 PM ET | 10-10-2008 | permalink

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