Democratic Struggle in South Carolina

[Joanne98]

The mystery victory of Alivn Greene in South Carolina's senatorial primary defies explanation. A pattern of voting irregularities has emerged, including 25 precincts where the reporter number of votes cast for Alvin Greene exceeds the number of persons voting. Later, that was apparently discovered to be a mistake. We get lots of mistakes in SC and lots we can't explain.

Image, Right, Vic Rawl (wearing red tie, white shirt) with supporters at campaign kickoff.

I was with Vic Rawl when he posted a You Tube video announcing he was considering challenging Jim Demint's reelection. I was at the event where we all realized something had gone terribly wrong last Tuesday. I was not in charge, but Vic Rawl was a decent man I was happy to support.

More on the campaign in "there's more."

wjhamilton29464's diary :: ::
South Carolina uses the discredited Diebold touch screen voting machine. http://www.flcv.com/... There is no paper trail for voting. The only record of the votes cast is found in the memory of the machine. This is the system Florida bought to replace the hanging chads and later junked in favor of a marked paper ballot, scanning system. The reason the touch screen system was junked were repeated occassions on which unexplainable results appeared, undermining the entire process of governance, even for the winners.

The problem with any machine which stores information only in volitile computer memory is that are several ways to change the results. Code can be inserted into the machine to change the results by flipping votes from one candidate or party to another. This can be done over a computer network from a remote location if the machines are connected to such a network. Such code can delete itself just as your own computer deletes huge amounts of data in ordinary operation.

Vic Rawl won the hand marked, paper absentee ballots by large margins in every county of the state. The votes for unknown Greene don't correlate with African American voters or other factors.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/12/875375/-Democratic-Struggle-in-South-Carolina

[daleanime]

1. 10 years after....

the Thief-in-chief 'took' office and we still haven fixed this?:nuke:








And check Arkansas to see that it's a two party problem.

[Tesha]

2. Does it actually matter who the Democratic candidate in SC is?

They're not going to prevail in the General Election.

Tesha

[NorthCarolina]

3. Alvin Greene was a GOP Insurance Policy....just in case the voters had a different inclination. eom

[IDemo]

4. The integrity of the election process matters, regardless

If this truly was a(nother) test case for e-machine election shenanigans, as a few have suggested, the test appears to have given its creators reason to celebrate.

[Tesha]

5. If the outcome is a foregone conclusion (as it is in most of Dixie), then...

...the integrity of the election process only matters in the
abstract because even a completely fair and honest election
will still elect the Republican(s).

Tesha