Multiple readers have sent me this story about troubles in LA with Dean Logan playing a starring role. The post itself is l-o-n-g, but here are the Logan highlights:

After speaking late last night about the problem to Dean Logan, the current acting Registrar-Recorder for Los Angeles County (the country's largest voting jurisdiction) and officials from the CA Sec. of State's office, I can report the failed e-voting machine in question is now being quarantined for testing to try and determine what happened in this, just the latest in a mounting string of failures by voting systems made by ES&S, the country's largest supplier of voting equipment.

While the machine is being sequestered for examination --- and one wonders if the same swift action would have been promised to someone not as well known to both the Registrar's and Sec. of State's office --- we'll call that point the "good news" for the moment.

And:

Given last February's now-infamous Super Tuesday "Double Bubble" ballot debacle when the knowingly-bad ballot design of former L.A. County Registrar Conny McCormack (who quit just a month prior to the election) resulted in some 50,000 uncounted paper ballots on the ES&S InkaVote system, reports of trouble, so far, from the polls out here yesterday have been few. No doubt, that comes as good news to McCormack's hand-picked successor, acting Registrar Logan, who had initially balked at counting those perfectly-countable, but uncounted "Double Bubble" ballots from the Democratic Primary election earlier this year. Eventually, he counted most of those ballots, while choosing to leave some 12,000 or more voters disenfranchised in that race, despite the vast majority of those ultimately-uncounted ballots being perfectly-countable, as we reported in great detail at the time.

And:

John Gideon, of VotersUnite.org (who is also a frequent Guest Blogger at The BRAD BLOG), was surprised to hear that Logan was unaware of the currently available devices. "Unless Dean Logan slept through the sales speeches from the AutoMark vendors, at conferences held by NASED, NASS, and the Election Center, he certainly knows that the AutoMark system, and others, have binary switches that allow for voters without use of their arms to vote independently," he told me this afternoon.