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Claim: Election Day 2000 is being split across two separate days because of an anticipated heavy voter turnout.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]
Origins: Oh boy, this one is almost as funny as those photocopied "rules" about employees only being allowed to use the bathroom on alternate days (depending upon the first letters of their last names) that popped up on workplace bulletin boards all over the country when an odd-even gas rationing scheme was instituted during the 1979 oil crisis. We'd like to think nobody is foolish enough to fall for something so obviously phony, but then we recall all the people who asked us whether the message about Billy the Burlap Boy was Unfortunately, this type of joke can have serious consequences. Obvious humor or not, some people are bound to believe it, and officials have started making grumbling noises about prosecutions for voter fraud. Secondly, if this message causes the election to end up being decided by only a few votes, we're all going to suffer through another eighty years of Ann Landers and Dear Abby running their error-laden "One Vote" columns over and over. I wouldn't want that responsibility on my conscience. The old Chicago aphorism says to "vote early and vote often." The part about voting early, at least, is good advice. As in, make sure you show up at the polls on Tuesday, Last updated: 31 October 2000 Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2008 by snopes.com. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com. |
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