Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Oct 23, 2010 at 2:58pm
Talk about an unfortunate typo.
A candidate for governor in Illinois was mistakenly listed as "Rich Whitey" instead of Rich Whitney on thousands of Chicago electronic-voting machines.
Possibly making matters worse, about half the wrong ballots are in African-American neighborhoods.
His name is actually Rich Whitney. He's the Green Party candidate for governor.
But on 500 electronic voting machines, the "N" was left off on the page where voters review their picks.
The elections board says the problem will be fixed, but several thousand ballots have already been cast.
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May '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
At least his last name isn't Crackner!
May '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
Illinois misspelled Rich Whitney's name to read Rich Whitey in African-American neighborhoods and failed to mail many military ballots downstate (read, Republican) in time for the ballots to count. It is so blatantly corrupt in this state that apathy is the norm.
May '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
"Typo" my ess.
Aug '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
If it's an honest typo, Illinois deserves it.
But Illinois is also the least likely state where this typo would be honest.
They don't call Cook County "Crook County" for nothing.
Jul '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
I didn't know Mitt Romney was running in Illinois.
Jul '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
This was the only logical outcome of the Supremes' ruling in Citizens United.
Now the Man even has the Green Party under his thumb.
Oct '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
I hope the logo finds that as funny as I did.
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
He's toast. Wonderbread toast.
Jul '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
They considered "Bich Whitney" but figured Ms Houston might have won.
May '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
Actually, that's not a bad description of many green types. See, e.g., Wales, Prince of.
Aug '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
Military ballots, fair enough, but what would be the point of sabotaging a Green Party candidate? Is the idea that the Democrats are worried about a "spoiler" effect from a tiny far-left third party? Do many blacks in Illinois vote Green in the first place? I guess it's possible, but my rule of thumb is never suspect a conspiracy when incompetence is plausible.
Aug '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
anon_academic
I guess it's possible, but my rule of thumb is never suspect a conspiracy when incompetence is plausible. · Oct 23 at 4:14pm
In Chicago it's like as not to be a combination of conspiracy and incompetence.
Good point.
Sep '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
Young Boozer, the Republican candidate for Treasurer in Alabama is also a candidate with a problematic name, and it's not a typographical error.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7807425/Yes-Young-Boozer-is-my-real-name.html
May '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
Hey, I'd vote for Rich Whitey any day. Oh wait...that's includes John Kerry...
Oct '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
But raw toast.
Aug '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
That's hilarious. I got a good chuckle out of this.
May '10
Re: Would You Vote For "Rich Whitey"?
It seems democracy is dead in Chicago. All the soldiers and Whitney supporters can do is complain and watch it happen again in the next election.
You can't fix a corrupt system by appealing to the corrupt system.