I’ll jump on this story like everyone else. We could all use a little real political humor.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled "Rich Whitey" on electronic-voting machines in 23 wards -- "about half in predominantly African-American areas."[...]
"I don't want to be identified as 'Whitey.' If this is happening in primarily African-American wards, that's an even bigger concern," Whitney told the Sun-Times.
Not only ‘Whitey,’ but RICH Whitey. Sometimes mistakes are funny. But not to Rich Whitey, I suppose.
At any rate, he’s only got 2% of the vote estimated, he’ll sue and make some money, and his name appears that way only after a voter has cast his vote and is reviewing his choices. How many people would have even noticed it? They will now.
The story continues that it’s too late to change his name before the election. I don’t know about you, but I’m not buying that. It’s a computerized system. If there’s five minutes, there ought to be time enough. I bet they could drag any number of teenage nerds off the streets of Chicago to fix that problem.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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