Bill my friend, strange things are afoot in Connecticut

Ok, this is weird.  According to the official (government certified [1]) final count for the Connecticut 2000 election, Phil Giordao, Joe Lieberman’s Republican opponent, received exactly 448,077 votes.  Fast forward to 2006, and according to CNN [2], Ned Lamont received – you guessed it, 448,077 votes.  WTF?! 

Thanks to August [3] for finding this one.  Let’s hope it’s just a typo.  Or that it is a shocking, improbable (though possible) coincidence.  Let’s hope it’s anything besides evidence of impropriety.