We don't know who will win but we know the name of the winner

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Everyone is talking about the election here but for a change it is not the U.S. election (yes, they do talk about it a lot even in Moldova) but the mayoral election in the town of Dragusani across the border from here in Romania. There all three candidates happened to have the same name: Vasile Cepoi. And they are not related to each other. Each of the three main parties is led by its own Vasile Cepoi in Dragusani. The voters are urged to be extra careful when voting to ensure that they don't pick the Vasile Cepoi they did not intend to vote for by mistake because the standard pre-printed ballots are designed to stress the candidates' names and not the names of the candidates' parties.

This situation has benefits too. The people of Dragusani already know that Vasile Cepoi will win the election and will be their mayor. Apparently they also went ahead and printed a lot of the new official stuff which required knowing the name of the new mayor already.

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

How are the people to know which Vespoli is which on the ballot?

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

The ballots do have the party names too but somewhere in the corner in small print.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

Is it just a really common name there, or is it just a really weird coincidence?

[topum.livejournal.com]

I think it is both. Because even if it is a very common name it still requires a weird coincidence to have all three candidates named exactly the same.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

Haha, that is awesome.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I can imagine local radio stations lost out on political advertising revenues this time. Radio adverts along the lines of "Vote Vasile Cepoi!" would be useless.