Bradblog once again has a great update on double-bubble madness, chronicling the blame game that recently-departed LA Registrar Conny McCormack has started playing. Discussing the recent front page LA Times article Brad explains:

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...

It was, of course, McCormack who oversaw the original design and implementation of the now-infamous double bubble ballot. So the fundamental function of her job was to know that this ballot violated election law and would likely disenfranchise thousands of voters. Her job specifically exists to know such things and avoid problems as a result. So at best, her comments belie surprising incompetence. At worst, less-surprising indifference.

More on the flip

the BradBlog post goes on to note that McCormack's blame game seems to be popular in her former office:

At the same time, there is plenty of blame to go around. Both Drugan and McCormack's temporary replacement, acting Registrar Logan, had been busy over the last week or two since the election, inexcusably blaming poll workers and voters for the problem, and giving themselves a pass for the ridiculous ballot design and awful, often contradictory, instructions they had given to poll workers on how to deal with "Decline to State" (sometimes called "Non-Partisan") voters at the polls.

Late comments from Drugan and Logan, however, seem to indicate that they're finally coming around to taking the responsibility for the problem that they should have from the beginning.

So yeah, there's some glimmer of hope. And we've received fantastic financial support since Thursday, during which time we've launched our Count Every Vote ActBlue page, raising $13,300 from 366 donors. And counting. Your support helps us keep up the heat on Dean Logan and keep calling out crazy statements like those from Conny McCormack.

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