A real-life Captain Jack Sparrow is on the Minnesota ballot — mashable.com

Captain Jack Sparrow is real. He lives in Minnesota. And he wants your vote. The candidate, who shares a name with the pirate famously played by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, is running for Hennepin county commissioner. And yes, that's his legal name, as a Gawker commenter first reported. Ballot of the day. #Election2014 pic.twitter.com/p1cYLpwtGE — Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) November 4, 2014

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