The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting today that over 1,500 ballots were sent out to absentee voters with the party designation swapped on one race.
According to Plain Dealer:
More than 1,500 absentee ballots sent to voters in several Cuyahoga County communities listed the wrong party affiliations for two candidates in the race for Ohio House District 7.
Democratic incumbent Kenny Yuko was incorrectly listed as a Republican, while challenger Beverly Valencic was mislabeled as a Democrat.
All those little IRI tricks add up, don’t they Kenny ?
Is Blackwell listed as both the Rep & Dem candidate on those ballots too?
Well, they only had one possible strategy left, and it looks, from Fox News and the Associated Press “mistakes” about Foley, and now the Cuyahoga ballots, that the Republicans have taken it: They’re so unpopular that the only way they can possibly win is to label their Democratic opponents as Republicans, and to mislabel themselves as Democrats.
I’m looking forward to seeing Dubya on national TV saying, “Hey there! As your Democratic President, nominated by the Democratic Party and elected by a majority of Democrats, I want you to know that I have always been a Democrat and I will continue to be a Democrat, because everything I said about the Democrats before might have caused you to believe that I wasn’t a Democrat. So let me make it clear: I’m a Democrat and so is everybody in my administration.”
This is too funny for words.
It’s 8:00 PM. Haven’t heard a word about this on local Cleveburg news. Maybe tonight? This should slam the door on Vu and friends, but probably won’t with a 2-2 split BOE.
Ah. The Lieberman Maneuver. Different level. Funny, I’ve been thinking this could be a problem all along. It’s actually coming to be. I checked that thought so often – the impossibility of such a simplistic tactic. I still have to pinch myself – could it really be? The quickness of the Foley strategy…
I am curious. How often in the past has this switcheroo ever happened? Trying to mess up the straight-ticket voters?
Oh, er, can you check that an electronic ballot has the correct party designations for each and every voter?