"Can't Truss It!" -- Public Enemy (Can't Truss It)

Upstate New York county lists Obama as 'Osama' on absentee ballot. "Can't Trust It!"

An upstate election board sent out hundreds of absenteeballots that misspelled Barack Obama's last name as "Osama" - as in the first name of terrorist enemy No. 1 Osama Bin Ladan. The Rensselaer County Board of Elections issued a statement Friday confirming a "typographical error was made in the name of one of thecandidates."

The error was included on 300 of the more than 4,000 absentee ballots that will go out, commissioners Larry Bugbee, a Republican, and EdwardMcDonough, a Democrat, said in the joint statement. "The Board of Elections acted quickly to correct the typographical error," the two said. "The error was not deliberate and the Board of Elections is continuing to fairly manage the upcoming general electionin a bipartisan and cooperative manner."

Remaining "Osama" ballots were shredded and new absentee ballots with the correctspelling were sent to the 300 people who received the bad ones. They will be able to send in either one and have their vote count, officials said.

"We're glad officials are working to correct this error and we assume it won't happen again," Obama spokesman Blake Zeff said.