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Just Because You Spellchecked... Part II

Tue., October 10, 2006

A great story today from the Associated Press. Go here for Part I.

Typo will cost Michigan county $40K

Tue Oct 10, 5:08 PM ET

Grand Haven, MI—Ottawa County will pay about $40,000 to correct an embarrassing typo on its Nov. 7 election ballot: The “L” was left out of “public.”

A total of 170,000 ballots will have to be reprinted.

The mistake appeared in the text of a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban some types of affirmative action.

The word “public” was misspelled one of the six times it appears, county Clerk Daniel C. Krueger said Tuesday. Five or six people in his office had proofread the ballot, but it was an election clerk who found the mistake early last week.

"It’s just one of those words,” Krueger said. “Even after we told people it was in there, they still read over it.”

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On October 13, 2006 at 7:45 p.m., someone anonymous wrote:

I think they should have left the error. Don't you think most people would vote to increase pubic funding, imporvement of pubic spaces, or increase pubic awareness?