Thursday, October 16, 2008

Confusion at the polls

From the online version of The Evening Times, October 16, 2008:

Early voting ends Monday, Nov. 3 at 5 p.m.

The General Election is Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Voters can go to the following locations to vote on Nov. 4...


Okay. In the first sentence, they give the correct date for the day before the election. In the third sentence, we get the correct date for voting.

And the second sentence just totally shits the bed.

Now, really. I can understand not wanting to do the hard work required to, I don't know, call someone with a calendar or ask the guy at the next desk. But, when you have all the correct information in the article you are working on and you fail to use deductive reasoning? And it's not like one date was at the beginning of the article, one was in the middle, and one was at the end. They're all right there together. Bang bang bang.

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