{"id":378,"date":"2006-12-16T02:49:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T07:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/12\/16\/odd-elections\/"},"modified":"2011-08-10T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:59:19","slug":"odd-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/12\/16\/odd-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Election foul ups<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know you had to mark all the boxes when you were picking ONE candidate?<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* OddPlanet_300x250_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3290981241\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p> Apparently a badly trained Kentucky election worker didn&#8217;t either because he physically tossed a voter out of a polling station in Louisville on Election Day because he hadn&#8217;t marked all the offices on his ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the case of a voter in Allentown, Pa., was arrested after he suddenly erupted in the voting booth and began pounding the machine with a paperweight.  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