CA: Former L.A. County Registrar Blames Everyone But Herself for 'Double Bubble' Failure

[Wilms]

Former L.A. County Registrar Blames Everyone But Herself for 'Double Bubble' Failure Which Went 'Unheeded' for Six Years

'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...

Brad Friedman

2/18/2008

L.A. County's former Registrar Recorder, Conny McCormack, who quit just prior to 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, 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."

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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...

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As we noted over the weekend, the LA Times had reported earlier reported that Non-Partisan ballots cast in open Democratic Primaries in previous years had gone quietly uncounted at an alarming rate. An editorial of theirs late last week pointed out that 44% of such "crossover" ballots went uncounted in the March 2004 Primary, while 42% of such ballots went uncounted in June of 2006.

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5707

Thanks to tbyg52 on the Daily Thread

[Mountainman]

1. Electing Debora Bowen was one of the best things we've done here in CA.

She must really piss the repukes off by wanting to count all the votes.

[rumpel]

2. ugh!

she needs to be held accountable - for all questionable actions!

[EFerrari]

3. She IS channeling Condi Rice!

:scared:

[diva77]

4. She was up to no good before there was a Condoleeza Rice in the picture

she's been pulling elections shenanigans since she was an elections official in Texas in the 80s

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. You have the best-est SOS in the country

wow!

Thanks to everyone who pushed for this, and who found a way for these votes
to be counted.