One month before Barack Obama won his first presidential election, Rensselaer County sent hundreds of absentee ballots listing him as “Barack Osama.” . When it was brought to light, the Upstate New York Board of Elections issued a statement stating a “typographical error was made in the name of one of the candidates.”. There’s a long, sick history of political subterfuge rooted in racism where no one is punished because the excuse is simply wr
