Nobody said they could spell

Daytona, Fla. is known for several things: spring break, bike week, and NASCAR, to name a few. But no world-championship spelling bees have ever taken place there among the topless and the leather-clad. It should therefore come as no surprise that the supervisor of elections of Volusia County can’t spell “Barack.”

The office sent out more than 2,000 Volusia County absentee ballots with a presidential candidate’s name misspelled. Their ballots read “Barak Obama.”

…Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall announced the discovery of the misspelled name last week and said all future ballots will spell the name correctly. She also said that voting equipment will still be able to read the ballots, and that votes for “Barak Obama” will count toward Barack Obama.

Oh well. At least they didn’t pull a Mitt Romney, who stopped a hair shy of calling the senator “Obama bin Laden.”