re: #753 MandyManners

It sure has pissed off Maddow.

Political shenanigans can get weird.

I worked for an elected official who had a lot of enemies (as they all do).

Every election cycle was weird.

One year, one of his political enemies found someone with the same last name as ‘my’ guy.

They got to the Secty of State’s office early, and registered their campaign under the SAME NAME that my guy had been using for all 20 years of his political life.

My guy got there and had the option of using a different name than he’d ever used before. The result of that, of course, was that voters could be confused and end up voting for his opponent when they intended to vote for him. He ended up coming back to the office to figure out what they were going to do, and it was eventually resolved but sheesh - it just caused no end of aggravation and concern. People will do anything to hurt the other side.