Meet Dean Logan, the dean of LA County election snafus

The silver lining in the chaos and confusion around the Los Angeles mayor’s race is that California’s system of counting votes has been exposed as the nation’s worst.  Nate Silver, the former election analyst for ABC News, calls it “kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.” But even though the one-party Democratic machine that set up this system won’t repeal it, some relief is about to appear. By the end of June, the U.S.

Supreme Court may rule that states will not be able to count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.That would negate California’s insane practice of counting such ballots up to seven days after the election, in some cases without a postmark or even a proper voter signature.A voter ID ballot initiative has finally qualified for the November ballot.

It would require voters to show a government-issued ID at the polls, while mail-in ballots would need the last-four digits of an official ID.  Election officials would be required to take steps verifying the citizenship status of voters.Lawsuits will also put pressure on cleaning up the state’s bloated and inaccurate voter registration rolls.Bill Essayli, the federal prosecutor for Los Angeles,  who has announced his office has “multiple election fraud investigations underway” is also suing California to allow an audit of its rolls and that case will soon reach the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court.

“If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed,” Essayli said on X.“What are they afraid of?” Another lawsuit filed last month by the public interest group Judicial Watch claims there are 873,000 “ghost” voters on the rolls who are felons, have moved, died, or don’t have a real address but are still getting mail-in ballots.Finally, the bungled Los Angeles mayoral election has finally provided a face that personifies the election incompetence, endless...