{"id":5769,"date":"2008-03-05T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?page_id=5769"},"modified":"2008-03-30T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T18:41:16","slug":"los-angeles-super-tuesday-primary-08-the-double-bubble-debacle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=5769","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL COVERAGE: L.A. County&#8217;s Super Tuesday &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Ballot Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DeanLogan_ConnyMcCormack_BradFriedman_030708_Testifying.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><u>KEY BRAD BLOG ARTICLES IN THE SERIES SO FAR<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(Most recent articles at bottom of list.)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/InkaVotePlus.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">2\/5\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5658\"><strong>Problems (and Confusion) at L.A. County Polls Today<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Independent Voters Have Trouble Voting, and Having Their Vote Counted, in the Open Democratic Primary<\/em><br \/>\nA Legal Battle Could Be on the Horizon Over &#8216;California&#8217;s Butterfly Ballot&#8217; if Results are Close&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/6\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5659\"><strong>More Details on &#8216;Double Bubble Trouble&#8217; in Los Angeles County<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Hundreds of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voter Ballots May Not be Counted in California&#8217;s Open Democratic Primary Election<\/em><br \/>\nCity Attorney Calls for Review by CA SoS, County Registrar of Voters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/6\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5662\"><strong>Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? &#8211; LA Times Reports &#8216;Few Election Glitches, Except for Independents&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>ALSO: Video Indicates Los Angeles Registration Problems for Republicans as well&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2\/7\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5665\"><strong>Filling in the Ovals on LA County&#8217;s Super Tuesday &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Debacle<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Confusion Reigns, Legal Challenges Loom as Hundreds of Thousands Votes May Not be Counted Due to Maddeningly Confusing Ballot Design, Procedures<\/em><br \/>\nUPDATED: Registar&#8217;s Office Say They Plan to Examine Non-Partisan Ballots, Will &#8216;Seek Legal Authority to Count Those Votes&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/12\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5688\"><strong>L.A. County Registrar Says It&#8217;s &#8216;Impossible&#8217; to Count Nearly 100,000 Ballots from Super Tuesday Primary<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The L.A. County Registrar is Lying&#8230;And Blaming Voters and Pollworkers to boot&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nUPDATED With Link to Petition Demanding ALL Votes Be Counted! Please Sign It!<\/p>\n<p>2\/14\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5692\"><strong>How to Count L.A. County&#8217;s &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Fiasco Ballots Accurately and Immediately<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>As the Clock Ticks Towards Final Certification, and the County&#8217;s Registrar Makes Excuses, Hundreds of Thousands of Voters Stand to be Disenfranchised for No Reason at All&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nEvery Vote Counted REDUCES the Current Error Rate! The Registrar Must Act NOW!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ConnyMcCormack_Condoleezza.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">2\/16\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5700\"><strong>L.A. County &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Disenfranchisement Happened Before, Registrar Conny McCormack Did Nothing About It<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>44% of Non-Partisan Cross-Over Ballots Went Uncounted in March &#8217;04, 42% Uncounted in June &#8217;06, Before Same Ballot Design Used Again for the February 2008 Super Tuesday Primary<\/em><br \/>\nAs LA Times Gets Religion on Election Integrity Issues, But Doesn&#8217;t Bother Apologizing For Their Failures to do so up to Now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/18\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5707\"><strong>Former L.A. County Registrar Blames Everyone But Herself for &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Failure Which Went &#8216;Unheeded&#8217; for Six Years<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8216;No One Could Have Predicted This,&#8217; Conny McCormack Tells LA Times in Her Best Condoleese, About Her Ballot Design That Disenfranchsed 40% of Voters in At Least Two Previous Elections&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2\/18\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5709\"><strong>Bowen to the Rescue: CA&#8217;s SoS Calls on L.A. County Registrar to Count Thousands of Still-Uncounted Super Tuesday Ballots<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Asks for &#8216;Precinct-by-Precinct Reconciliation&#8217; of Poll Rosters to Begin Accurately Accounting for Tens of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voters Who Cast Machine-Unreadable Ballots<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DeanLogan_NotCounting.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">2\/26\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5746\"><strong>L.A. County Registrar Prepares to NOT Count Thousands of &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Ballots from Super Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic Primary<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New Planned Method for Counting Uncounted Non-Partisan Crossover Ballots, as Proposed by Dean Logan in Response to Sec. of State&#8217;s Request, Will Needlessly Disenfranchise Thousands of Legal Voters<\/em><br \/>\nSoS Bowen Must Intervene Again to Assure All Votes That Can be Counted ARE Counted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/20\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5752\"><strong>L.A. County &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Trouble Gets Worse, as Thousands of &#8216;Remade&#8217; Provisional Ballots Set to Go Uncounted as Well, According to Local Activist<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Despite Party Designation on Provisional Ballot Envelopes, an Estimated 10 to 15,000 Democratic Votes Cast by Validated, Non-Partisan Registered Voters from &#8216;Super Tuesday&#8217; Primary May be Uncountable by Registrar&#8217;s New &#8216;Supplemental Counting&#8217; Scheme&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3\/04\/08:  <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5763\"><strong>L.A. County Registrar Chooses to Disenfranchise 12,000 Voters in Final &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Ballot Tally<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>But the Good News: Provisional Ballots, Newly Discovered as Uncounted, as Reported by The BRAD BLOG on Friday, Were Ultimately Counted&#8230;by Hand!<\/em><br \/>\nJoint Legislative Hearing on &#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; and Other Super Tuesday Problems to be Held on Friday in Los Angeles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/DeanLogan_ConnyMcCormack_Testifying_030708.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">3\/8\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5777\"><strong>&#8216;Double Bubble&#8217; Hearing: Logan Runs and Conny Gets Called on the Carpet<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Acting Registrar Lies to the Board of Supes, Former Registrar Lies to the Joint State Legislative Panel<\/em><br \/>\nIndependent Criminal Investigation Called For&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3\/10\/08: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5782\"><strong>VIDEO: Brad Friedman and Other Election Integrity Advocates Speak At Historic California Hearing On Voting Problems<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The BRAD BLOG Publisher Also Nearly Gets Thrown Out Of Hearing by The Sergeant-at-Arms<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- To CLEAR any floating graphics from the content, before getting to the item comment links, etc. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer\" style=\"overflow: hidden; zoom: 1; visibility: hidden; width: 100%; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- End invisible CLEARING div--><\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Please consider an online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=The+BRAD+BLOG+Double+Bubble+2008&#038;item_number=123456\"><b>donation to The BRAD BLOG<\/b><\/a> in order to help continue our investigative reporting efforts to protect <i>your<\/i> democracy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEY BRAD BLOG ARTICLES IN THE SERIES SO FAR (Most recent articles at bottom of list.) 2\/5\/08: Problems (and Confusion) at L.A. 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