"So who did you vote for?" One New Yorker says to another.
"Paladino. I think Cuomo's ex-wife, that Kennedy girl, took his nuts with her when she left."
"Yeah, I agree. He's just a girl from the hood. Did you mark the oval above his name?"
"Yep. Exactly as the ballot instructions read. I followed them precisely."
"Then you just voted for Hawkins, the Green Party guy."
"Whiskey, tango, foxtrot, over?"
How come every city, county, or state that f's up printing a ballot or sending ballot to our boys and girls in the military has a democrat elections board or commissioner? Just remarkable.
NYC printed ballots with precisely wrong instructions:
A vote for Republican Carl Paladino could actually be a vote for Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins – if you follow the directions printed on the November ballot.
In what appears to be yet another "royal screwup," the city Board of Elections printed a sample ballot that instructs voters to fill the "oval above" a candidate's name.
The correct oval is actually below each candidate's name.
Of course, the elected or appointed people are either chastened or condemning. Leave it to what seems to be a liberal outsider to put it in perspective:
Neal Rosenstein, voting coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the error won't have a large impact on voters because most don't even read the instructions.
I wonder if Neal would feel the same way if he were running for office.
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