Leif Ericson was not a native of Greenland, he came from, I believe, Denmark?
Anyway, on one of his many voyages he had been gone a long time, and when he got home he went to vote. The town clerk informed him that his name was not on the voting rolls, so he couldn't vote. When he told his wife, she was upset and she went to the town hall and confronted the clerk. Taking another look at the voting rolls, she admitted that his name had been droped and it was probably her fault. She said...

wait for it





"Good grief, I must have taken Leif off my census."