EA the worst company in America? Again?

Moore admitted this launch was "severely fumbled."

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It's that time of the year again.

The one where companies vie to be worse than Comcast.

That used to be the plot, at least, to the point at which Comcast tried to get its own staff to help prevent it winning the Consumerist's Worst Company in America award.

Last year, though, Electronic Arts walked off with the prize, and this year things aren't looking too good.

It's already in the Final Four, where it must face the might of Ticketmaster. So EA's CEO, Peter Moore, thought it best not to attempt ballot stuffing.

Instead, he took to his company's blog in order both to preempt a repeat victory and perhaps to encourage voters to have mercy.

In a post titled "We Can Do Better," Moore offered that this poll might not be the most objective assessment of worstness.

He wrote: "This is the same poll that last year judged us as worse than companies responsible for the biggest oil spill in history, the mortgage crisis, and bank bailouts that cost millions of taxpayer dollars."

His point is one of the more undeniable that any CEO could offer, save for the fact that BP wasn't even involved in this competition last year.

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