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Posted on 06/14/2010 4:00:15 AM PDT by Scanian
South Carolina Democrat Vic Rawl has lined up hired independent experts and is calling for an official investigation of his stunning loss to unknown Alvin Greene in the U.S. Senate primary last week.
There is a tendency to treat all post-election complaints by the losers as so many sour grapes. The site TechDirt, however, suggests an alternative and very scary explanation as to how Alvin Greene upset Vic Rawl that needs to be taken seriously. It starts with a basic question most political writers prefer to ignore. Does South Carolina use electronic voting machines? Not only does it turn out that the answer is yes, but there are some huge huge red flags about this contest. According to Rawl's campaign manager, Walter Ludwig, in Politico, it seems Rawl won 84 percent of the absentee ballots in Lancaster county, yet the unknown Alvin Greene carried the county 17 percentage points on election day. As a rule absentee ballot results provide the first indications of a monumental upset in the making rather than run counter to one. In other counties the numbers aren't adding up in different ways.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
OK, this is the first common sense explanation as to what happened. If it turns out the voting machines were manipulated that would be huge. And serious.
The Dims were just practising their election fraud skills, leading up to the general election.
LOL
I’m sorry, it’s funny watching them stew
A tremendous plurality if not majority of SC Dem primary voters are Black. Greene is Black. Absentee voters away from the state did not know that. In-state voters did.
Blacks voted for him because he is Black. period.
LLS
The process is so important that it should not be allowed to give way to various plans to ‘improve’ it. Truth is, most every plan presented as a way to make the process better is just as likely to be rife with ways to control the results.
For my money we can go back to the plain ol’ paper ballot that's marked with a pencil and counted by hand. True, it would slow the process very badly, but so what. There's something to be said for the ability to count and re-count years later. There are some things important enough to make sure they work as well as possible. The voting process is surely one of them.
I have seen this sort of oddball result before. When a statewide primary contest gets little attention from the press and the candidates have little to spend on their campaigns, voters are grossly uninformed and tend to pick the first name on the ballot that seems acceptable. For that reason, Florida Republicans once picked a dope with the name Ron Howard as their candidate for state Education Commissioner instead of a superbly qualified former President of Florida State University who appeared further down on the ballot.
The Democrts will apply the lesson they learn [on how to steal elections] from this to the mid term election. It will not be funny then.
Cast all ballots on paper.
You either order an absentee ballot in advance or show up, in person, on election day with a photo ID that matches your voting address.
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>> Simple solution to voting machine problems. &etc
Nah, that makes too much sense to ever be implemented.
Something does not add up; the democrat leaders are crying he did not have any campaign effort, but in the same breath they say his campaign was republican backed, so which is ; was he or was he not bankrolled with a campaign, they can’t have it both ways!
And why is it not plausible that absentee ballots are from people who are more literate than those who vote in person in some areas of the country for members of some parties, namely democratic party?
The fact that this guy was a felon and was even allowed to be on the democratic ticket and his status was unchallenged by his opponent up until now is troubling in and of itself, while as for voting machine fraud, this may all be a trail run, for more insidious fraud to come, because for all we know he was a democratic plant to see if felons that nobody wants in office can be propped up by voting machine fraud come future elections.
It wouldn’t be nearly as funny if it happened to Jim DeMint
“The fact that this guy was a felon “
I don’t think that is a fact. He has been charged with a felony, emailing a college girl a porno pic, but has not even gone to court yet. At least that’s what I read here yesterday.
I disagree,, I believe a person should have to pass a written test, (on paper, in English) and get a voters license. Only way to save this country. I no longer believe election results, all propaganda.
Very true, Rockingham.
That’s what got the Harrisburg town drunk elected to office in PA. His name just happened to be Bob Casey, like the former governor.
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