[Voterescue] Debra Bowen to the rescue in LA

[Karen Renick]

*L.A. County's Super Tuesday
"Double Bubble" Trouble Coverage Continues...*
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/*Bowen to the Rescue: CA's SoS Calls on L.A. County Registrar to Count 
Thousands of Still-Uncounted Super Tuesday Ballots*/
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/Asks for 'Precinct-by-Precinct Reconciliation' of Poll Rosters to Begin 
Accurately Accounting for Tens of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voters Who 
Cast Machine-Unreadable/

California Sec. of State Debra Bowen wants Los Angeles County's acting 
Registrar of Voters, Dean Logan, to check the poll rosters of thousands 
of precincts in order to help accurately count tens of thousands of 
currently uncounted ballots cast in the Super Tuesday Democratic Primary.
As The BRAD BLOG pointed out last week 
<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5692>, tens of thousands of currently 
uncounted ballots cast by Non-Partisan voters who chose to cross-over 
and vote in the Democratic Primary, but who failed to ink in a second 
bubble meant to instruct voting machines to count the ballot as a 
Democratic vote, can be counted accurately, as per the voter's intent, 
if Logan bothers to check those poll rosters....
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*FULL STORY:* http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5709

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/*Former L.A. County Registrar Blames Everyone But Herself for 'Double 
Bubble' Failure Which Went 'Unheeded' for Six Years*/ 
<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5707>

/'No One Could Have Predicted This,' Conny McCormack Tells LA Times in 
Her Best Condoleese, About Her Ballot Design That Disenfranchsed 40% of 
Voters in At Least Two Previous Elections.../

L.A. County's former Registrar Recorder, Conny McCormack, who quit just 
prior to <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5014> February's Super Tuesday 
Primary Election, turned into Condi Rice today. She's quoted in an/ Los 
Angeles Times'/ front page story confirming, as we pointed out over the 
weekend <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5700>, that Election Officials did 
nothing about the "Double Bubble" ballot problem --- which may well 
disenfranchise a conservatively estimated 50,000 county voters --- 
despite massive disenfranchisement with the same design over last six 
years, since McCormack first implemented it.
In her best/ Condoleese/, McCormack is quoted by the paper today saying, 
"This is an unfortunate, unanticipated result...No one could have 
predicted this."
Sound familiar?
She is shortly contradicted, in the same article, by a spokesperson from 
her own former office, before she continues on to blame/ voters/ and/ 
poll workers/ for the problem that/ she/ created --- as now confirmed by 
both the/ LA Times/ and California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen --- 
before then proceeding to do absolutely nothing about it...

*FULL STORY:* http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5707
 
 
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Brad Friedman
Publisher/Editor, The BRAD BLOG
http://www.BradBlog.com <http://www.bradblog.com/>
 

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