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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

2008 / Politics Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Lizard People

Posted by Anthony Hecht on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:41 AM

Minnesota Public Radio has posted a bunch of disputed ballots from the November election, asking readers to vote on how they should be handled.

Some voters drew little arrows, some signed their ballots, some circled the black scan marks on the side of the paper, some made marks near just about every candidate's name, some voted for Lizard People in every race. Hilarious!

The lesson? Voters are idiots. Still, in some of these, the voter's intention is absolutely clear, yet the opposition challenged the ruling anyway. So, the candidates are liars, too.

But you knew that already.

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How stupid-proof do you have to make a ballot for people not to screw it up?

Posted by Greg on December 10, 2008 at 9:02 AM

My brother showed me this over Thanksgiving, and we voted for which ballots we thought the voters intention was clear, and which ones it wasn't. We only agreed on maybe half of them. I don't envy the re-counters....

Posted by Julie in Chicago on December 10, 2008 at 9:13 AM

Look man, that is NOT a vote for lizard people. He wrote it in, but then voted for Al. CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT????

Posted by STJA on December 10, 2008 at 9:14 AM

the internet, it is a race, and another slog commenter won.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

Posted by josh on December 10, 2008 at 9:29 AM

Wow, I can't believe how stupid people are :-x

Posted by l0nepinemall on December 10, 2008 at 9:29 AM

What is Lizard People's connection to Bill Ayers?

Posted by kebabs on December 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Um, yeah, we knew that ... because these images have been kicking around the net for three frickin' weeks already.

Posted by RonK, Seattle on December 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM

You mean we're not supposed to doodle on our ballots?

But then how else will they see all the smiley faces?

Posted by Will in Seattle on December 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM

If a person cannot fill out a ballot correctly and lawfully, then their ballot should be thrown out. I don't care what side of the political spectrum they fall on. If you're not competent enough to follow simple directions, then you're clearly not qualified to decide your representation.

Posted by another Andy on December 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM

#9
andy - having a bad day??

intent is the only possible standard -- and -- EDUCATION to not fuck with ballots, serious stuff

Posted by B L M on December 10, 2008 at 12:34 PM

That's a vote for Franken. When the voter intends to vote for Lizard People, he darkens in the Lizard People oval.

I also doubt the constitutionality of voting for multiple lizard people for one Senate seat. He should probably have written in Lizard Person.

Posted by NapoleonXIV on December 10, 2008 at 1:12 PM

You can see a far wider amount of ballots at http://senaterecount.startribune.com/ (around half the disputed ballots). A large number are fairly boring and the reasons for being contested are idiotic.

Posted by brusselsprouts on December 10, 2008 at 8:41 PM