Brocky VIII: If I Put Two Names on the Ballot, Can I Keep the Votes for Both?

Submitted by Howard Beale on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 5:52pm.

Brock Olivo, the former social studies student who has never voted but is now vying for the GOP nomination in Missouri's Ninth Congressional District, is trying to parlay his civic inexperience into valuable votes on Primary Day.  

His clever gambit?  Filing two different Federal Election Commission candidate committees, each with a different spelling of his own last name!

Here on the FEC website, we find the candidate committee filing for:

OLIVO, JAMES BROCKMAN     ID: H8MO09112
 CHALLENGER

Office Sought:      House
State:      Missouri
District:      09
Party:      REP (Republican Party)

But here, on the very same FEC website, we also find:

OLIVIO, JAMES BROCKMAN     ID: H8MO09120
 CHALLENGER

Office Sought:      House
State:      Missouri
District:      09
Party:      REP (Republican Party)

So both Brock Olivo and Brock Olivio have now made initial filings for a Congressional campaign committee.  For Brock's sake, I hope the Olivo and Olivio campaigns don't split his vote. 

As the stellar tipster who emailed this nugget notes, "They say you get a couple hundred points on the SAT for spelling your name correctly..."

But spelling it incorrectly earns you no extra votes, Brock.

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