Conny McCormack has been a strong advocate of DREs, and has appeared in Diebold literature.

She is Registrar in Los Angeles, the largest single election jurisdiction in the country, larger than many states, with almost 4 million registered voters.

She has opposed Secretary Bowen's Top-to-Bottom review. She stated in her letter during the public comment period that she had asked the legislature to change the law so that the Secretary of State would not have the power to decertify election systems.

She's wanted to switch Los Angeles to all Diebold TSx's. Of course now, those are decertified except for disability access. She probably figures it is a good time to leave; it's all downhill from here for her plans for Los Angeles.

So, she'll probably go to work for Premier? I'm sure you will be all over it, if she does.

A prostitute for the electronic vote rigging companies. What kind of a golden parachute will the EVM vendors hand out to this anti-democracy witch ?

John,

Under the "fairness doctrine" you should include the "nick name" of all those wonderful "doin a hecuva job" folk you mentioned shouldn't you John?

If so, your lead in statement:

Joining Karl Rove and Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales in announcing their retirements is Conny McCormack ...

could be enhanced by this fairness doctrine compliant lead in:

Joining Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove and Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales in announcing their retirements is Conny "McElection" McCormack ...

the bill (not HR 811) is in the mail John.

I am slow, but upon reading your opening remarks it occurred to me that nobody on the East Coast, or even the Between Coasts, is informed about what is happening in LA on this topic. I believe the general sentiment might be summed up with a roll of the eyes and an exasperated "Oh yeah, California...."

The "who cares" response is unjustified, and it doesn;t help to trumpet the "Bigger than X-number of National Economies---innovations always start in California" line. That puts people off even further. But the whole gravity of the story and the detail of what has happened is totally absent from media coverage.

It is frustrating.

I am an "East Coaster" and keep a close eye on what the Fascists KKKarl rove/Schwarzenegger are doing out in California. The Enron utilities debacle, to the governors recall election, and finally the faulty electronic voting machine difficulties and bogus election results were not all accidents or coincidences - but well planned events to subvert democracy by design. The Republican Party intends to rob the Demos of the foothold they have in the State of California - just like the rove/bush/cheney crime syndicate did in the States of Texas, Florida, and Ohio. The more electoral votes they can hijack the more the dream of - A Permanent Fascist Republican Party Majority 100 Year Rule - becomes a reality.

Stealing the State of California from the grip of the Democratic Party is a Republican Party wet dream. We allow their meddling and manipulations of the electoral process at the peril of our DEMOCRACY. A corporatist/fascist/Dominionist Christian police state is what they have in mind for America. That reality can not go uncontested.

Well, and our Democratic representation is doing a great job helping them, too, turkie....

You mean, there are still some voting machine companies out there that are hiring?

Rumor has it that there may be a voter ballot scandle involving the Special Congressional Elections under Ms. McCormack's watch. Ballots without the names of all the candidates? One of the candidates was seen at the D.A.'s office and she said there was something very underhanded going on in this last election.