What Unusual Name Did Sheldon Bergson Use?

In 2015, Canadian politician Sheldon Bergson completely changed his name to trick people into voting for him. This reminds Jordan of a thing he heard on the radio once: If you legally change your name to Mace Windu, the baddest Jedi in the galaxy, we will give you $5,000. That feels like the sort of thing where there we go have five or six people turn up and there's going to be lawsuits because only the first Mace Windu gets the money. Back when I was at university, we had a voting system where it was some complicated version of ranked choice. And then you would have one called reopen nominations or Ron.

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