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In this thread, we post wacky news reports from all over the world. Make sure it's appropriate for all readers of the forums and make sure to provide a date and a valid source from where it came! (Note: Don't worry about when it happened. As long as it's wacky, or some other adjective to describe anything outlandish, go ahead and post)
Oct. 10, 2006
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. - Ottawa County will pay about $40,000 to correct an embarrassing typo on its Nov. 7 election ballot: The "L" was left out of "public."
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A total of 170,000 ballots will have to be reprinted.
The mistake appeared in the text of a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban some types of affirmative action.
The word "public" was misspelled one of the six times it appears, county Clerk Daniel C. Krueger said Tuesday. Five or six people in his office had proofread the ballot, but it was an election clerk who found the mistake early last week.
"It's just one of those words," Krueger said. "Even after we told people it was in there, they still read over it."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010...awuNIsuQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-
Oct. 10, 2006
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. - Ottawa County will pay about $40,000 to correct an embarrassing typo on its Nov. 7 election ballot: The "L" was left out of "public."
ADVERTISEMENT
A total of 170,000 ballots will have to be reprinted.
The mistake appeared in the text of a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban some types of affirmative action.
The word "public" was misspelled one of the six times it appears, county Clerk Daniel C. Krueger said Tuesday. Five or six people in his office had proofread the ballot, but it was an election clerk who found the mistake early last week.
"It's just one of those words," Krueger said. "Even after we told people it was in there, they still read over it."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010...awuNIsuQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-