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Flag of Chile Is Accidentally Displayed on Texas Ballots
Texas flag flag of Chile
by Joseph Ernest October 12, 2010
Newscast Media -- Officials in Atascocita County, south of San Antonio, have been sending out absentee ballot packages that include a page with a flag, but the only problem is the flag is not the flag of Texas, it's the Chilean flag, and nobody had noticed the error.
It wasn't until after Troy Knudson, who is studying in Japan and registered to vote in Atascosa County, received his package that he noticed the mistake and alerted officials.
"Apparently the insert has been used for some time without anyone (voters and staff) noticing," he wrote in an e-mail. "I guess it's funny in some way, but my initial reaction was more disbelief that no one had noticed."
He said election officials congratulated him "for preventing future Atascosa voters from seeing the flag mistake."
The flags look similar since both have a big white stripe on top and a big red one on the bottom. They each have a single star in the middle of a blue field. The only difference is that the blue on the Chilean flag is only in the top left corner. And in the Texas flag, the blue runs all the way down the left side.
Janice Ruple , the elections administrator in Atascosa County, didn't see any humor in the mistake.
"I don't think it's funny," she said. "It's a serious thing."
Ruple blamed the woman who held the job before her for the flag mix-up. The previous elections chief couldn't be reached for comment.
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