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10-10-2008, 10:31 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_el_pr/osama_ballot;_ylt=AhuvCqO9My2SXfDsB1.WNhGyFz4D
NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot
By RICHARD RICHTMYER, Associated Press Writer
TROY, N.Y. - Who is running for president? 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 individual named Osama is Osama bin Laden, leader of the al Qaida terrorist group behind the 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City.
NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot
By RICHARD RICHTMYER, Associated Press Writer
TROY, N.Y. - Who is running for president? 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 individual named Osama is Osama bin Laden, leader of the al Qaida terrorist group behind the 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City.