The King County Council was set to spend $345,000 Monday on ballot tracking technology until Jason Osgood told members the contractor "appears to be out of business."

Election officials said they believed the company was in business but had sold the right to market the VoteHere ballot tracker to another Bellevue company, Election Trust

Osgood is known to readers of Washblog as zappini. He has quietly established himself as the No. 1 opponent of the county's plan for all-mail elections. He's done it from the left, in contrast to the opposition we have come to expect from the right and done much to make the movement a bipartisan success.