L.A. County Registrar Prepares to NOT Count Thousands of 'Double Bubble' Democratic Ballots

[BradBlog]

(Cross-posted in GD: Primaries here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4801349 )



L.A. County Registrar Prepares to NOT Count Thousands of 'Double Bubble' Ballots from Super Tuesday's Democratic Primary
New Planned Method for Counting Uncounted Non-Partisan Crossover Ballots, as Proposed by Dean Logan in Response to Sec. of State's Request, Will Needlessly Disenfranchise Thousands of Legal Voters
SoS Bowen Must Intervene Again to Assure All Votes That Can be Counted ARE Counted...

I hate to counter the adulation of so many of the good groups out there claiming "victory" and "a happy ending" today in the "Double Bubble" ballot dispute in Los Angeles County, but I must.

The "victory" they are now referring to, with the best of intentions, as "Great news!" is much less than it appears. Though if you don't look closely, it might otherwise look like a "victory." Unfortunately, it isn't.

Unless something changes, and quickly, Los Angeles County's acting Registrar of Voters Dean Logan is preparing to disenfranchise thousands of voters who cast legal ballots in the Super Tuesday Democratic primary election.

In the 3-page letter sent by Logan to CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen yesterday, the recently-arrived, but still-befuddled, county clerk details how he now plans to potentially toss out thousands of votes, while inappropriately awarding disproportionate votes in favor of only some candidates, in response to the "Double Bubble" ballot debacle reported by The BRAD BLOG (most recently here), in great detail previously.
Though Bowen -- echoing both the law and the Constitution of the state of California -- directed Logan on Feb. 14th to "count each and every vote in every case in which the voter's intent can be clearly determined," he will not be doing so, if his insulting, unfair, and arguably illegal counting scheme currently proposed, proceeds as planned.

Los Angeles, and all of California's voters, should be outraged…

MORE, FULL COVERAGE: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5746

(UPDATED 2/27/08 2:00pm PT, after speaking with Bowen's office about this, and her response to Logan's proposed counting scheme. See the bottom of the complete article, as linked above, for the updated detail and comments from Bowen.)

[rumpel]

1. How disappointing

I just read the couragecampaign e-mail and thought, oh good.

You must be referring to what Logan said in his statement that it is impossible to determine voter's intent.

:(

I'll go read your article now.

[diva77]

2. Logan is planning to certify the votes this coming Tues., Mar. 4 - it's on

the agenda for the Board of Supervisors' upcoming meeting

Item #13

Recommendation: Declare Official the results of the Presidential Primary
Election held February 5, 2008. NOTE: Documentation not available at
printing of agenda. Documents expected to be available in the
Executive Office on Monday, March 3, 2008. (Registrar-Recorder/County
Clerk) (08-0458)

:eyes: