November 07, 2005
Dean Logan admits own work is "unacceptable"
Dean Logan, criticizing state GOP chairman Chris Vance for the King County Republicans' newbie mistakes made when challenging nearly 2,000 illegally registered mail box voters:
Logan said the GOP error rate was too high.
"His effort resulted in a at least a 10 percent error rate and that's an error rate that would not be acceptable in any of the work that we do in the elections process," he said.
Correct. But the only reason the GOP challenged the mail box voters in the first place is because Dean Logan did absolutely nothing about them even though he is obligated by law to act against illegal registrations. By failing to act against any of the nearly 2,000 illegal mail box voters, Logan's error rate is 100%. By his own characterization, that error rate would not be acceptable in any of the work that they do in the elections process, and in any case it is 10 times worse than the GOP's error rate.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 07, 2005
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1. Dean Logan is really sad. I don't even know what else to say about the guy. He is not even close to qualified for his job and really has done a terrible time convincing anyone otherwise the last year.
2. torridjoe writes at the open blog:
Clownstein? How the less-than-mighty have fallen. Coming on someone else’s site to call them names–especially when people can’t even call your judgement to account on your own site, without being banned. I suppose that’s why SoundPolitics has lost 63% of its audience since January–they recognize that the site is no longer (and really never was) the least bit credible. And you have the nerve to mock the newspapers for losing 6-10% of their subscription rates. Your site is FREE, and you’re hemmorhaging readers!
Comment by torridjoe— 11/7/05 @ 9:37 pm
SS, (funny coincidence about the initials isn't it) the 'great condescender'
PS get over it, Sims will win and we are saved from Irons and his culture of corruption, torture and abuse.
3. Wouldn't celebrate Yet Chimp Patrol!Voters vote for Irons unless you like more of this clown show by Logan & company!!
4. Since Logan can't earn more than $9/hour elsewhere, and is valuable to the Dems, gee, we have him for another 30 years, right?
5. A precise analysis. How difficult is it to cross-check the voter registration database with known addresses of mailbox businesses? With felon lists? With issued death certificates? Common sense if you ask me.
6. Dean Logan's statement in the voter's pamphlet concludes with "We are determined to be the King County Elections Office you expect us to be." Oh please, no.
7. Isn't it interesting that Logan doesn't seem to have the support of other auditors now like he did after the 2004 election? I wonder what they are thinking now.
8. That's typical of the kind of comments liberals (and communists for that matter...but I digress...) make about anyone who challenges their competence, authority, or integrity. BLAME THE ACCUSER OF THE SAME THING YOU DO IN MULTIPLES OF 10! Great job SP of bringing out the OBVIOUS FLAW in Logan's logic. Doing nothing assures 100% error. Maybe if Republicans could get some HELP from KC Elections we could bring that error rate down. Instead, GOP investigators are hindered in any activity that may shed some light on the corruption that has gone on in KC Elections for years.
By the way, is anyone sick of those commercials put out by the Associan of State Auditors (or whatever they call themselves) implying your vote won't be counted if you don't sign the envelope? Talk about shutting the barn door after the horses already ran out! And who the hell thinks they won't STILL count any and all suspicious votes in KC if the Sims/Irons race comes down to a couple hundred votes?
9. Dean Logan can't be fired, because he 'knows where all the bodies are buried', so to speak. So we're stuck with him uless Irons Jr. gets elected. Vote, people!
10. Now isn't that ironic - Dean Logan making comments about somebody else's accuracy?
By the way, note the last paragraph in the article linked above:
"We are prepared to deliver a secure and accountable election tomorrow,” Logan said Monday.
Yeah, right. Just like last year.
11. For what it's worth, the Times has a story about the mailbox issue. They admit "Most of the 1,944 King County voters whose registrations were challenged by Republicans last month appear to have done what the GOP says: registered illegally using private mailbox businesses or storage complexes as their residential addresses."
They then spend the rest of the time carrying "the Republicans are the bad guys" story.
Ironically, when I go onto the Times website, in the upper right hand corner are advertisements - the predominant one I've seen has been for UPS Stores. Subliminal messaging?
12. "We are prepared to deliver a secure and accountable election tomorrow,” Logan said Monday.
Funny... Mr. Logan doesn't say secure from what or accountable to whom.
13. Perhaps I'm just a part of the academic liberal elite (or a nitpicking bastard who should just shut up), but isn't an error rate ten times greater than 10% equal to 1.0 - (0.9^10), or 61%?
An error rate of 100% is infinitely greater than any error rate less than 100%.
Of course, that makes your claims ever better. With an error rate of 100%, the election is mathematically irrelevant and probably just a figment of your imagination.
14. Perhaps I'm just a part of the academic liberal elite (or a nitpicking bastard who should just shut up), but isn't an error rate ten times greater than 10% equal to 1.0 - (0.9^10), or 61%?
An error rate of 100% is infinitely greater than any error rate less than 100%.
I believe if we call the universe the number of registrations challenged (and assume they should not have been accepted) that gives us a Repub error rate 140/2000=7%, not "at least 10%."
Furthermore, that gives Logan an error rate of (2000-140)/2000, or 93%.
15. With acurracy rate any bank would envy!there is one problem,KCE forgot their good home training as usual!(they need to quit wetting themselves it gets really smelly!!)
16. If Dean Logan would just keep the voter rolls clean, he wouldn't have to suffer all this!
17. Typical...Logan can't or won't do his job in the manner required by law, but he is willing to criticize those who are attempting to clean up his mess. But then, Logan doesn't really want the mess cleaned up. For his purposes, KC elections works better just the way it is...broken.