LA Observed: New voting official brings baggage

New voting official brings baggage

Kevin Roderick • Bio • Email

The elections director in King County, Washington is coming here to take the job of chief deputy registrar of Los Angeles County. Dean Logan's tenure in Seattle has been anything but calm, apparently due mainly to partisan politics and his advocacy of voting by mail. Logan has "been incessantly vilified by the GOP and their surrogates," says a politics blogger up there (whose site goes by the name of HorsesAss.org.) At least one critic has called for Logan to be jailed, but HorsesAss calls him a "colorless bureaucrat in the best sense of the word" and says "Logan has simply had enough of the abuse." Logan's chief nemesis is apparently Republican blogger Stefan Sharkansky. Logan refers in a statement to the "recent incivility and disrespectful nature of proceedings..." Links from Seattle Times columnist David Postman.

11:24 AM Tuesday, June 20 2006 • Link
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