{"id":6496,"date":"2008-10-10T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2008-10-11T06:10:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:10:49","slug":"barack-osama-on-absentee-ballots-sent-to-voters-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6496","title":{"rendered":"Barack &#8216;Osama&#8217; on Ballots Sent to Voters in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesunion.com\/capitol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/osama_absentee.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ObamaOsamaAbsenteeBallot_RensselaerCountyNY_101008.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j9YDTLWNOCPajU80ZrttdJwCeATwD93NQH880\">From AP&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">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 &#8220;Barack Osama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as &#8220;Barack Osama&#8221; and &#8220;John McCain.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCommissioners for the Rensselaer County Board of Elections say they regret the error but do not acknowledge in a statement exactly what the error is.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">a donation<\/a> to help us keep going.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP&#8230; 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 &#8220;Barack Osama.&#8221; The absentee ballots sent to voters in Rensselaer County identified the two presidential candidates as &#8220;Barack Osama&#8221; and &#8220;John McCain.&#8221; &#8230; Commissioners for the Rensselaer County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,169,122,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}