County elections director resigns (King County, WA)

Seattle PI ^ | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | NEIL MODIE

[ecurbh]

Dean Logan, the politically battle-weary director of King County elections, is resigning to take the No. 2 elections job in Los Angeles, prompting County Executive Ron Sims to delay moving the county to a virtually all-mail voting system.

In an interview Monday, Logan said a factor in his decision to leave his job as director of the Records, Elections and Licensing Services Division was the "toxic environment" surrounding the elections operation. It heated up after the contested 2004 governor's election and intensified again recently over Sims' vote-by-mail plan.

Sims has planned for an August 2007 rollout of the vote-by-mail system, which the County Council, after several delays, is scheduled to vote on next week. But he said Logan's departure, coupled with other vacancies in the elections office, "is a major setback for us on vote by mail."

"I think the earliest we're going to achieve it now is 2008. ... We're going to be very methodical, and I'm not even guaranteeing we'll do it in 2008," the executive said.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"...all-mail voting system..."

Seems to me that'd be overly-ripe for fraud. Probably be a whole lot less expensive than people-manned voting booths, though. Anyone have experience with such a system?

[sionnsar]

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[Andy from Beaverton]

I guess Kalifornia has to catch up to Orygun and Washingtin to see who can have the most screwed up election system?

[ecurbh]

Seems to me that'd be overly-ripe for fraud.

In King County, it'd be BAD NEWS. This is the county that kept "finding" votes for Gregoire during 2004's multiple-recount fiasco.

[Red Badger]

So, he's going to Lost Engelish to run Their elections.........

[reformedliberal]

Can citizens sue the County Election Board en masse for disenfranchisement and/or fraud if the elections are rigged?
Maybe in Federal court under HAVA?

[chimera]

In an interview Monday, Logan said a factor in his decision to leave his job as director of the Records, Elections and Licensing Services Division was the "toxic environment" surrounding the elections operation. It heated up after the contested 2004 governor's election and intensified again recently over Sims' vote-by-mail plan.

This is the scumbag who hand-delivered the "victory" to Fraudoire by having King Co. supposedly "find" so-called "lost" ballots, what eight or 10 different times during the 2004 "recount" (more like re-vote). They found "just enough" (isn't is so amazing and wonderful?) to put Fraudoire over the top. And now he's bitter about the "toxic environment"? Cripes. This is the dimwit who made it that way.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Unexpected. Will it be replaced by an honest official?

[Spunky]

I sure hope they can keep the rest of Washington from going all mail in voting, especially King County.

Ron Sims was able to get our Democrat election official to implement the all mail in voting here in Franklin County.

[schu]

Hey Dean, cry me a river.

The

"toxic environment"

was caused by YOUR team, you stole the election, cheated Dino out of the Gov seat, broke the law and now you want us to feel sorry for you.

Logan should be glad he was not indicted. If Reed and/or McKenna were really civil servants Logan would be in jail by now.

Glad to see you go, schu

[Jack Black]

All of Oregon. Yes, it's ripe for fraud. All elections in Oregon now end with a "slow count" in Multnomah county where mysteriously enough votes always accumulate to put liberals over the top. Any book on vote fraud will tell you that "the absentee ballot is the method of choice for most fraud". It's obvious why. It's easier to fake a few hundred signatures of people who haven't shown up to vote.

The Oregon system is particularly flawed because they "count as they go" which tells them not only what the count is, but who hasn't voted. By 4:00 on the last day anyone paying attention in the vote count center can pretty well know what ballots are not going to be voted.

[jeremiah]

I hate mail balloting, if you cannot make it to the voting booth physically, you shouldn't be allowed to vote at all. Now for those in overseas deployment, there should be a way to let them vote, but for those unable to make it to the polling booth personally, no.

Does a Congressman get to cast a vote during session from England? Or from his home district?

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"...if you cannot make it to the voting booth physically, you shouldn't be allowed to vote at all."

Except for our US Military. I'd certainly give them that option.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

I remember reading about that.

[sionnsar]

Unexpected. Will it be replaced by an honest official?

Not likely. Seattle's as corrupt as they come, and has been for a long time.

[La Enchiladita]

I also remember how Democrat operative Bob Mulholland got Barbara Boxer into the Senate and how voter fraud by illegal Mexicans got Loretta Sanchez into the House. Dean Logan is not an original, by any means.

[GretchenM]

Good news for us.

Bad news for LA.

[jeremiah]

There should be a voting booth at every post there is on soldier stationed, with the votes tallied and sent on, but this mail in ballot is the source of the problem in many cases.