No competence necessary

What do you do with a state level elections official who has demonstrated ineptitude? Why appoint her to a federal level position overseeing other's equally dismal performance of duties of course.

President Bush said Thursday he intends to appoint Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson, who has been criticized for state election blunders, to the four-member federal Election Assistance Commission.

Among other complaints,

She also was criticized after the names of 6,000 state parolees and prisoners popped up on voter-registration rolls and as many as 68,000 state voters - including Davidson - were registered more than once.

Only in the Bush White House can incompetence be so richly rewarded.