from the Daily Kos

Randy Wooten, candidate for mayor of Waldenburg, Ark., received NO votes in the election, yet he knows he voted for himself, according to AP:

Wooten got the news from his wife, Roxanne, who went to City Hall on Wednesday to see the election results.

“She saw my name with zero votes by it. She came home and asked me if I had voted for myself or not. I told her I did,” said Wooten, owner of a local bar.

Wooten also says several people around town say they voted for him, so he’s wrestling with whether it’s worth going to the trouble of obtaining a court order to open the electronic voting machine to check the totals.

But here’s my question: When his wife came in and said he hadn’t received a vote and had to ask him if he’d at least voted for himself, didn’t that tip him off that she hadn’t voted for him?

SusanG at the Daily Kos raises an interesting question in that last paragraph.  But unless there was a serious failure with the voting machine, if I was Randy, I’d consider relocating (with or without his wife at this point).  It is obvious that this is a man who is not well loved in his hometown.  Maybe he charges too much for the beer at his bar.