Posted on 06/15/2010 9:24:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hackers must be behind Senate candidate Alvin Greene's victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary last week, Rep. James Clyburn claimed in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.
Trying to account for how a candidate who had no money and no campaign infrastructure was able to pull out a victory over a well-funded local lawmaker in a statewide race, the powerful South Carolina Democrat said the touch-screen voting machines used by the state are notoriously unreliable. Without citing evidence, Clyburn said the voting machines could have been compromised.
"I believe there was some hacking done into that computer," Clyburn told Fox News, suggesting that somebody at the state could have deliberately bought those machines so that the system would be vulnerable. South Carolina uses a machine called the iVotronic.
"Maybe somebody wanted the machines that were easily hacked into ... We had no business with those machines in South Carolina," he said.
The State Election Commission rejected that theory on Tuesday. Chris Whitmire, spokesman for the commission, said the department has not detected even a hint of fraud or hacking in Tuesday's election and dismissed the charge that the system is not dependable.
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It sounds like a moveon operation to me.
I wonder if he ever considered maybe people meant to vote for Greene?
Unlikely 13% of the US population know who Clyburn IS. And just as well.
We have Algore and FL 2000 to thank for that.
The winner may be a black man, but he isn’t The Democrat Party’s “black man”.
Are we sure this is not another one of those “crises that cannot go to waste”? Is this a setup of for some kind of Democrat “fix” to the election process? I don’t put anything past this regime.
I’m sure it had nothing to do with the Dem voters in South Carolina being morons, right?
It is not possible the people of OH thought Kerry was a pompous doofus.
No way...
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Even *IF* he’s right, how can they possibly explain all the other illegitimate, incompetent, and outright lunatic democrats who have won elections? Damn near the entire party fits in this category.
I’m confused. I thought we were racist if we DIDN”T vote for the black guy????/
.......now WE are cheating if THEY win?????
Well, I don’t know how it happened, but I am amused. Damned amused!!
I've been studying this and I'm convinced pixies did it. There may have been some use of magic powder too, but I'm not prepared to make a definitive statement on that... yet.
Seems to me the most likely answer is an “anybody but Clyburn” vote. Given Clyburn’s performance since the primary, this idea gains value.
Or maybe the voters thought they were voting for Al Green, and they were going to get free concerts!
He would be more believable to me if he said that the Body Snatchers had come to SC and voted.
I wouldn't be so quick to assume Clyburn is off base.
Hugo Chavez has been rigging elections here since 2006:
We have a winner! Callers, you can stop dialing!
Those chaps must be channeling some obscure, post Civil War Klansman.
In a fair and just world Clyburn would be a men’s lavatory attendant rather than a congressman.
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