The content on this webpage contains paid/affiliate links. When you click on any of our affiliate link, we/I may get a small compensation at no cost to you. See our affiliate disclosure for more info -----------------------
Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:33 pm
Who needs Republican dirty tricks when you can rely on stupid Minnesota Democrats?
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry likely is going to get one less electoral vote nationally than he should have—251 instead of 252—because of an apparent mistake Monday by one of Minnesota’s 10 DFL electors.
One of the 10 handwritten ballots cast for president carried the name of vice presidential candidate John Edwards (actually spelled “Ewards” on the ballot) rather than Kerry.
There was stunned silence after the announcement that Edwards had gotten a vote for president, but none of the 10 electors volunteered that they voted for Edwards as a protest, nor did anyone step forward to admit an error.
Meuers said he was certain that the Edwards ballot wasn’t his, but he noted that “both the candidates were named John, and the ballots looked pretty much alike.”
As Free Will’s Aaron notes: “Look, guys, you got the benefit of the doubt with the ‘butterfly ballots’ in 2000, but we can’t dumb it down for you much more than this.”
- Posted by Spiny Norman on 2004 12 15 at 03:56 PM • permalink
It’s biased and unfair to expect Democrats to be able to write…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2004 12 15 at 04:40 PM • permalink
ROFLMAO! So the electoral college needs to go back to school? Geesh… and it wasn’t even spelled right? What kind of people do Dems delegate for the electoral voting? 😀
Posted by mamapajamas on 2004 12 15 at 05:03 PM • permalink
- Posted by Quentin George on 2004 12 15 at 05:38 PM • permalink
What actually happened was the elector was a little confused.
She wrote:
“John. You know, the pretty one. Nice hair. Cute smile”.
Posted by Quentin George on 2004 12 15 at 05:39 PM • permalink
The US must waste no time in spending vast amounts of money to sponsor:
Voting For Dummies
Well, at least the folks in Florida didn’t have anything to do with this.
Posted by CJosephson on 2004 12 15 at 11:26 PM • permalink
You see what happens when you have quotas?
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2004 12 16 at 12:22 AM • permalink
don’t laugh at the Ewards clan!
(you reckon this dork was a product of a public school?)
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2004 12 16 at 02:25 AM • permalink
Boy, and I thought butterfly ballots were supposed to be hard.
“What? There are *two* candidates named John? How am I supposed to figure out which is which?”
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2004 12 16 at 11:58 AM • permalink
Note that it is the Republicans who are knwon as the ‘stupid party’. I guess that makes the Democrats the ‘slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging, borderline-mentally-retarded party’.
As Ann Coulter says, this election is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s the fact that this drongo misspelt Edwards’s name that elevates this from merely hilarious to riotously funny.
Posted by David Gillies on 2004 12 17 at 05:48 AM • permalink
- Posted by David Gillies on 2004 12 17 at 05:49 AM • permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages
Maybe he simply couldn’t remember John WhatsHisFace’s name