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Claifornia - Millions Spent on a Special Election and We can't Even Spell our name!
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So the California Government is spending a few mil on a special election this november, such things on the ballot include:
Prop 73 - Constitutional Amendment requiring "signed parental consent 48 hours prior to the abortion of an unborn child for unemancipated minors" during anytime of the pregnancy.
Prop 74 - Raising a teacher's tenure from 2 years to 5 years. And if a teacher receives two unsatisfactory annual reviews in a row, the teacher can be fired.
A few prescription drug props, a union dues prop, and an energy deregulation related prop.
Unfortunately, we can't even spell our own name right on the absentee ballot. Just got mine today. Here's the scan:
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That truly sucks in a major and extremely disturbing manner.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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funny and sad
arnold must have written that up
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All the geniuses live in claifornia.
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Seems like a pretty convincing argument for unsatisfactory annual reviews for whoever ‘taught’ the person to spell that created the ballot. 
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OMG! Spend millions and millions of dollars to oust Davis! He's costing us money!
OMG! Spend millions and millions of dollars to oust Arnold! He's costing us money!
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Umm no one is ousting Ahnold. If anything I hope people have learned their lesson about this whole recall thing. There hasn't been a lick of change since Ahnold took office. Things in California aren't bad. But they're not great either.
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Dude, you don't oust the Govinator. He ousts you.
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Maybe that's the way they say it in Austria, native country of your governor?
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Prop 73, 74, 78, 79 and 80 were not put forward by the Governor. Those five were all signature gathered, approved initiatives, waiting for the next election which happened to be this special election.
I didn't notice the spelling error when I voted absentee. Each ballot is individually produced (San Diego has a mayor's race, other places have added special elections too) so it might be a local printing foul up.
It is funny though. Maybe we do need better teachers.
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Prop 73, 74, 78, 79 and 80 were not put forward by the Governor. Those five were all signature gathered, approved initiatives, waiting for the next election which happened to be this special election.
I didn't notice the spelling error when I voted absentee. Each ballot is individually produced (San Diego has a mayor's race, other places have added special elections too) so it might be a local printing foul up.
It is funny though. Maybe we do need better teachers.
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Got mine the other day; must still be above the car visor.
Will check and see if it has the typo tomorrow.
(shakes head and mutters)
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It's very sad, but amusing.
Maybe it's "Spanglish?"
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A spelling error. Get over it.
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..heh.. but you gotta admit, it is fairly funny.
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Originally Posted by Cubeoid
..heh.. but you gotta admit, it is fairly funny.
Ah well. I smirked for 1/777th of a sec.
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Glad to see my fellow Claifornians are voting! Thanks for taking the special election seriously! Here in Ventura County we have NOTHING on the ballot except the props.
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Originally Posted by nredman
funny and sad
arnold must have written that up
Nah, then it'd be CawLEEfornia.
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I have to say that in most things a spelling error is just an example of lack of attention to detail. But on an ABSENTEE BALLOT, WHICH IS A LEGAL DOCUMENT, it can be very important. In fact, (depending on how California's constitiution and absentee voting laws are written) it could require some action by the legislature to make the ballots with California misspelled LEGAL.
Voting is THAT important.
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I definitely agree with you. it'd be one thing if it was just the label for the ballot like "Claifornia Ballot", but this misspelling was in the Voter's Absentee Affidavit, this is the part that you are supposed to sign stating that you are not committing fraud and not voting twice.
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Originally Posted by iDriveX
I definitely agree with you. it'd be one thing if it was just the label for the ballot like "Claifornia Ballot", but this misspelling was in the Voter's Absentee Affidavit, this is the part that you are supposed to sign stating that you are not committing fraud and not voting twice.
Hey, you should request a second absentee ballot, correct the spelling of Claifornia <man that's hard to type deliberately> and submit both. Muck up the works a bit and find out which one of them is really legal.
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One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
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