I’ll give the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel credit for publishing this on the front page, even if it is at the bottom of my edition.
Sample ballots printed for the Waukesha County executive special election give voters some unintended advice: which candidate to vote for.
Published in several newspapers this week, sample ballots promoting Tuesday’s contest between James Dwyer and Dan Vrakas include a mark signaling a vote for Dwyer.
The red-faced county clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, said the gaffe occurred when her office sent some newspapers the same sample ballots that had been marked and used to test voting machines.
“It was just a human error,” she said. “We caught it, but we didn’t catch it fast enough.”
The tainted sample ballots are being published in newspapers in Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, Mukwonago and Sussex.
Why don’t I believe that this was just a human error? At least Dan Vrakas, the victim in this, has a sense of humor – “Hey, I got the top spot on the ballot.”
Revisions/extensions – see how much racism costs yet?
