Ballot Blues

I just dug this old one out at Snopes.com. Apparently, there were voting irregularities in the 2004 election that I was not aware of. But were they the fault of the evil Bush Empire or were they the fault of tire-slashing hippies? Neither. It was the fault of man in his own stupidity. Here’s just one of the stories:

Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She voted straight Democratic. When she did the final check, lo and behold every vote was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted for Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres. She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected. She called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all her information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a similar incident and that they are looking into it.

Other stories mentioned on the site include voter error on the behalf of machines as well, but here we have a clear cut case of a woman accidentally filling out a ballot incorrectly. Whoahoah, say it ain’t so.