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ausador12/09/2012 10:44:30 pm PST

Wingnuts fall for a military parody site, now circulating email claiming that “Late Absentee Ballots From Military in Afghanistan Would Have Won the Election For Governor Mitt Romney”

The Truth:
This eRumor came from a military satire site called The Duffle Blog and this article was intended to be a joke. Click for article.

There is a disclaimer on “About Us” section of this website that said, “The content of this site is parody. No composition should be regarded as truthful, and no reference of an individual, company, or military unit seeks to inflict malice or emotional harm. All characters, groups, and military units appearing in these works are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual military units and companies is purely coincidental.”

The email being circulated is just the article from the site word for word, a portion of the email is below…

WASHINGTON, DC – Sources confirmed today that hundreds of thousands of military absentee ballots were delivered hours after the deadline for them to be counted, with preliminary counts showing that they would have overturned the vote in several states and brought a victory for Governor Mitt Romney…

Officials say the ballots were delivered late due to problems within the military mail system. Tracking invoices show the ballots sat in a warehouse for a month, then they were accidentally labeled as ammunition and shipped to Afghanistan…

…After military officials realized the initial error, the ballots were then sent back to the U.S. but suffered a series of setbacks.

Twelve boxes of ballots were dropped overboard during delivery to the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) in the Persian Gulf…

The remaining absentee ballots were loaded onto a C-130, but the flight was delayed until November 1st so the crew could get tax free pay for the month. Once the ballots arrived stateside they were promptly mailed to each state’s counting facility, reaching their final destination on November 7th…

How anyone could not see that the article was a parody is beyond me. Then again perhaps I owe them some slack, nowadays it is getting difficult to tell wingnut parody sites from actual wingnut sites because they both sound just as insane to me. :(