LA’s painfully slow vote count run by man with shocking election recount past

Nypost · Jun 05, 2026 · 789 words · By Jamie Paige

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LA’s painfully slow vote count run by man with shocking election recount past See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The California Post on GoogleThe man holding the keys to Los Angeles County’s vote count has spent much of his career navigating election controversy.

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Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan, whose compensation totals nearly $450,000 a year, is once again facing scrutiny as hundreds of thousands of ballots remain uncounted and several major races hang in the balance Throughout his…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Poisoning the Well, Selective Omission: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that One of the most prominent occurred in 2008 when nearly 50,000 decline-to-state voters cast ballots that initially were not counted because they failed to mark an additional party-preference bubble required to participate in certain presidential primaries?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “One of the most prominent occurred in 2008 when nearly 50,000 decline-to-state voters cast ballots that initially were not counted because they failed to mark an additional party-preference bubble required to participate in certain presidential primaries.”

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The search results provided for this claim are unrelated to the 2008 'decline-to-state' voter issue in LA County, discussing instead 2026 elections and Maryland voting.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 11, 2026 ... Christine Marie we have our own mayor and city council. You vote for city council in Santa Clarita. You also vote for county board of ...
https://www.facebook.com/signalscv/posts/a-photo-shared-tues…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 29, 2026 ... We can vote for #SteveHilton and the other Republican candidates on the ballot, and start bringing back BALANCE to our state government. There's ...
https://www.facebook.com/LACountyRRCC/posts/todays-decision-…

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web search NEUTRAL — The State Board of Elections provides all eligible citizens of the State convenient access to voter registration; provides all registered voters accessible ...
https://elections.maryland.gov/voting/early_voting.html

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Claim 2: “Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan, whose compensation totals nearly $450,000 a year”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of 'dean' and unrelated Wikipedia entries. No evidence regarding Dean Logan's specific salary or compensation was found in the provided search results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Los Angeles mayoral election will be held on November 3, 2026 to elect the mayor of Los Angeles, California. A nonpartisan top-two primary was held on June 2, 2026. Incumbent mayor Karen Bass…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Los_Angeles_mayoral_elect…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) is one of 37 departments in Los Angeles County, California which serves a population of over 10 million. The Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk is responsible …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Registrar-R…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nithya V. Raman (born July 28, 1981) is an American urban planner, activist, and politician serving as the Los Angeles city councilmember for the 4th district since 2020. Raman, a member of the Democr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nithya_Raman

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Claim 3: “In 2018, Los Angeles County awarded election technology company Smartmatic a contract worth approximately $282 million to help design and build the county’s Voting Solutions for All People, or VSAP, voting system.”

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Multiple sources (Politico and other web results) explicitly confirm that LA County awarded Smartmatic a $282 million contract in 2018 for the VSAP system.

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web search NEUTRAL — Los Angeles County’s VSAP vote tally system is now California’s first certified election system to use open-source technology. This publicly-owned technology represents a significant step in the futur…
https://ivn.us/posts/why-is-a-foreign-tech-company-with-ties…

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web search NEUTRAL — LA County’s new voting system is slated to be in place in time for the March 2020 California Presidential Primary election. Two pilot programs will be conducted prior to that election. On May 2, 2019,…
https://www.smartmatic.com/us/media/la-county-awards-contrac…

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web search NEUTRAL — Smartmatic won the $282 million contract to build the VSAP system in 2018 in a procurement process that included just one other bidder: CGI, the parent of the federal contractor that developed the inf…
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/los-angeles-county-…

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Claim 4: “Logan oversees a department with an annual budget of approximately $337 million and roughly 1,150 authorized positions, according to Los Angeles County budget documents.”

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No evidence was provided for this claim in the search results.

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Claim 5: “He later succeeded McCormack as the county’s top elections official”

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The provided evidence for this claim contains dictionary definitions of 'dean' and unrelated Emmy award lists. There is no evidence provided confirming that Logan succeeded McCormack.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2019, until May 31, 2020, as chosen by th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of stage names lists names used by those in the entertainment industry, alphabetically by their stage name's surname followed by their birth name. Individuals who dropped their last name and…
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web search NEUTRAL — The dean is usually always a senior professorial member of the faculty, elected by the faculty council. Deans are not appointed by the university leadership but are an expression of the faculty's righ…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_(education)

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Claim 6: “The county-owned system debuted countywide in 2020, replacing aging voting equipment with touchscreen ballot-marking devices and a network of voting centers throughout Los Angeles County.”

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Multiple sources confirm the VSAP system debuted in 2020 and utilized ballot-marking devices and Vote Centers.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 29, 2020 ... This voting solution was an entirely new voting experience that incorporated Vote Centers, an extended 10-day early voting period, and an ...
https://content.lavote.gov/docs/rrcc/vsap/vsap-report_final.…

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web search NEUTRAL — Since the 2020 Presidential election, the groundbreaking Voting Systems for All People (VSAP) ballot marking devices built by Smartmatic for Los Angeles ...
https://www.smartmatic.com/blank/los-angeles-county-vsap-mod…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 15, 2022 ... Vote Centers across the County will open for the Statewide Direct Primary Elections on May 28, 2022, with Election Day scheduled for June 7, ...
https://managementcouncil.lacounty.gov/Event/5100

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Claim 7: “Smartmatic has repeatedly denied those allegations and later secured major legal settlements from media organizations that aired false claims about the company.”

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Claim 8: “Democrat Christine Gregoire was certified as governor-elect, despite trailing in two machine tabulations. Gregoire ultimately prevailed in an unprecedented hand recount of nearly 2.9 million ballots, winning the race by just 129 votes.”

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Multiple independent sources (CNN, Seattle Weekly, and Wikipedia) confirm that Christine Gregoire won the 2004 Washington governor's race by 129 votes after a hand recount of nearly 2.8-2.9 million ballots.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 2004, in 11 states and two territories. There was no net gain in seats for either party, as Democrats picked up an open seat in Montana w…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2004 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2004. The race gained national attention for its legal twists and extremely close finish, among the closest political races in United…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christine Gregoire (; née O'Grady; born March 24, 1947) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of Washington, from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she w…
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Claim 9: “Logan left Washington in 2006 and joined the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office as deputy to then-Registrar Conny McCormack.”

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The provided evidence mentions Dean Logan's current role and a lawsuit involving McCormack, but does not explicitly confirm the date he joined (2006) or his specific title as deputy to Conny McCormack.

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Claim 10: “Before arriving in California, Logan served as elections director for King County, Washington”

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While multiple search results confirm Dean Logan is currently the LA County Registrar-Recorder, the specific detail about him serving as the elections director for King County, Washington, is not explicitly confirmed by the provided evidence snippets, although the context of the 2004 WA election is mentioned. No direct confirmation of his role in King County is present in the provided text.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abner Vance (1770 or 1760 – July 16, 1819) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and murderer. He was also reportedly a preacher. He reportedly killed a man in 1817 and fled to tug fork. A few ye…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Andersen v. King County, 158 Wash. 2d 1, 138 P.3d 963 (2006), formerly Andersen v. Sims, is a Washington Supreme Court case in which eight lesbian and gay couples sued King County and the state of Was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen_v._King_County

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