The guy went from being Air Force intelligence to Army supply… not looking good for his intelligence level. Then he was forcably “honorably” discharged from the Army. Yeah, he’s a real keeper.
My gut feel is that someone is protesting the voting machines - either the machines themselves or the process of machines and no voter trails, etc. I think he is a dupe for someone who is milking this for a while before the other shoe drops.
Oh? Is that in the constitution? Is there a mental acuity requirement for holding a national office? Nope.
If there were, there should also be tests given to each voter prior to being allowed to cast a ballot. Maybe the candidates names shouldn’t even be on the ballot, only their platform. This result just proves even more that the electorate is stupid, and should not have a vote. Name recognition is the reason there are so many incumbents, people are too stupid to pay attention to campaigns, platforms, ideas… They just pull the lever (press the button, punch the chad) for whatever name the recognize most.
Any way, strange I didn’t even hear about him, since I’m in the same town as he is. In any event, I’d actually love to see him win, and end up on some interesting committee in DC. Might shake things up a bit, and you can’t lower the collective IQ of the Federal Government no matter what you do to them.
There’s still no real evidence for electoral shenanigans. Right now the best evidence is that most people didn’t know who Rawl was, some didn’t like him, and the rest just didn’t give a crap and wound up voting for Greene.
No evidence ,but it is such an anomaly that it is easy to question it.
It’s easy to question it, I agree. And I can’t totally rule out something fishy. But since Rawl and others are claiming something dirty went down, at some point they need to provide actual evidence.
I suspect a glitch, if anything. Maybe the people who didn’t vote for either candidate had their vote go to Greene.
I find it amazing that they have electronic voting without a paper trail. How could anyone with even the tiniest shred of sanity think that this would be a good idea?
South Carolina, need we say more?
Maybe they can look at the paper trail…
… and we made the Daily Show. 
Indeed. Jon Stewart was on fire last night–one of his best bits in a while. 
Well, that is sort of par for the course. The weirdest thing about the election (in my mind), was that state-wide, all lottery machines were out of service “Due to the Election” from late Monday night, through Wednesday afternoon.
Maybe we don’t actually use the ballots at all here, and just let the Pick-3/4/whatever bubblemachine determine the results?
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0615/vic-rawl-systemic-failures-south-carolina-voting/ Not a glitch but lots of them. This article says Greene got more votes than were cast in 25 counties. The paper ballots, absentee, went 68 percent to Rawl. This election reeks.
I can maybe explain away the absentee discrepancy: People with absentee ballots have a few days to fill them out, and access to resources like the Internet while they do. So when they got to the Senate race and went “Alvin Greene? Who’s that?”, they could go online and find out “Oh, he’s nobody”, and check off Rawl. But people in the voting booth couldn’t do that, so might have voted on other criteria (random selection, “anyone but Rawl”, alphabetical order, guessing race from name, whatever).
But more votes than were cast in 25 counties? That’s completely absurd. Is there any source other than a single blog for that? Because if that actually happened, then I don’t know what South Carolina had last week, but it sure wasn’t an election.
The article gonzo linked to credits (without a link) Brad’s Blog. I can’t find that statement there.
I did find Spartanburg County results here. Precinct level results are available as a download from the “Reports” tab. These results apparently do not include absentee ballots. Nothing looks fishy to me.
Now as to the trustworthiness of the voting machines, I won’t hazard a guess, but I will chime in on the side of those who are saying that a electronic voting machine without a paper trail isn’t worth the paper it’s not printed on.
No, it doesn’t say that:
It claims that in ONE county, Spartanburg, there were 25 precincts in which Greene received more votes than were actually cast.
But that’s not true:
Greene Greene Rawl Rawl
Precinct Regis. E.Day Total E.Day Total Total
Voters votes votes votes votes
Woodruff Armory Drive Fire Station 1210 15 15 7 7 22
Arcadia Elementary 807 11 11 3 3 14
Rebirth Missionary Baptist 2933 39 39 18 18 57
Arrowood Baptist 485 9 9 3 3 12
Friendship Baptist 3282 24 24 16 16 40
Mt. Sinai Baptist 1904 33 33 22 22 55
Boiling Springs 9th Grade 2764 23 23 18 18 41
Gable Middle School 2830 46 46 30 30 76
Lake Bowen Baptist 3265 25 25 23 23 48
Cooley Springs Baptist 2259 19 19 12 12 31
Landrum High School 2239 15 15 16 16 31
Hendrix Elementary 3218 58 58 26 26 84
Canaan Baptist 1006 20 20 15 15 35
Cannons Elementary 1124 20 20 14 14 34
Cavins Hobbysville 876 7 7 6 6 13
E.P. Todd Elementary 2132 55 55 35 35 90
Cherokee Springs Fire Station 1594 11 11 8 8 19
Chesnee Senior Center 2199 20 20 17 17 37
Clifdale Elementary 836 10 10 14 14 24
Converse Fire Station 1076 14 14 8 8 22
Cowpens Fire Station 1721 16 16 9 9 25
Woodruff Fire Station 1084 8 8 7 7 15
Cross Anchor Fire Station 755 19 19 5 5 24
North Spartanburg Fire Station 2182 26 26 18 18 44
Abner Creek Baptist 971 4 4 7 7 11
Drayton Fire Station 1310 18 18 13 13 31
Grace Baptist 1243 26 26 12 12 38
Cedar Grove Baptist 1411 45 45 27 27 72
Enoree First Baptist 1239 23 23 17 17 40
Fairforest Middle School 2465 34 34 11 11 45
Travelers Rest Baptist 2661 64 64 30 30 94
Glendale Fire Station 1382 17 17 9 9 26
Gramling Methodist 1384 7 7 9 9 16
Hayne Baptist 1282 10 10 11 11 21
Holly Springs Baptist 2273 12 12 12 12 24
Chapman High School 2429 52 52 17 17 69
Landrum United Methodist 2828 23 23 13 13 36
Lyman Town Hall 2744 43 43 19 19 62
Mayo Elementary 1685 7 7 13 13 20
Motlow Creek Baptist 906 13 13 8 8 21
R.D. Anderson Vocational 1470 26 26 10 10 36
Swofford Career Center 2594 23 23 20 20 43
T.W. Edwards Recreation Center 1503 26 26 18 18 44
Pacolet Town Hall 817 20 20 8 8 28
Pauline Glenn Springs Elementary 1011 14 14 7 7 21
Pelham Fire Station 1089 13 13 18 18 31
Poplar Springs Fire Station 2158 25 25 19 19 44
Powell Saxon Una Fire Station 1151 42 42 13 13 55
Reidville Elementary 2609 37 37 17 17 54
Roebuck Elementary 2433 72 72 32 32 104
Mt. Moriah Baptist 1597 62 62 35 35 97
C.C. Woodson Recreation 1441 56 56 30 30 86
Pine Street Elementary 1342 19 19 35 35 54
Trinity Methodist 1666 14 14 31 31 45
Southside Baptist 1318 40 40 27 27 67
Spartanburg High School 2427 34 34 55 55 89
Cornerstone Baptist 1536 47 47 36 36 83
Park Hills Elementary 1171 62 62 33 33 95
Silverhill United Methodist 624 28 28 13 13 41
Woodland Heights Recreation Center 2087 39 39 28 28 67
West Side Baptist 2081 52 52 28 28 80
Beaumont Methodist 659 4 4 6 6 10
Cleveland Elementary 2042 52 52 16 16 68
Ebenezer Baptist 947 41 41 22 22 63
Startex Fire Station 1011 32 32 6 6 38
Una Fire 471 11 11 8 8 19
Victor Mill Methodist 1778 24 24 17 17 41
Mt. Calvary Presbyterian 2370 18 18 17 17 35
Wellford Fire 2473 64 64 29 29 93
West View Elementary 3446 34 34 46 46 80
Croft Baptist 1120 23 23 14 14 37
Whitlock Jr. High 1369 13 13 12 12 25
Bethany Baptist 1328 33 33 6 6 39
Woodruff Town Hall 1917 48 48 22 22 70
Woodruff American Legion 671 23 23 10 10 33
Eastside Baptist 1413 21 21 34 34 55
Mt. Zion Full Gospel Baptist 774 19 19 15 15 34
Jesse Bobo Elementary 1775 82 82 31 31 113
White Stone Methodist 953 16 16 10 10 26
Cudd Memorial 1363 25 25 14 14 39
Oakland Elementary 1977 9 9 7 7 16
Boiling Springs Intermediate 2794 51 51 28 28 79
Carlisle Fosters Grove 1637 9 9 11 11 20
Cowpens Depot Museum 1196 17 17 13 13 30
Beech Springs Intermediate 1697 22 22 18 18 40
Inman Mills Baptist 1958 23 23 11 11 34
Bethany Wesleyan 2074 23 23 16 16 39
Reidville Fire Station 3163 43 43 15 15 58
Roebuck Bethlehem 1363 31 31 21 21 52
Jesse Boyd Elementary 1515 30 30 27 27 57
Anderson Mill Elementary 3777 63 63 33 33 96
Daniel Morgan Technology Center 1261 19 19 31 31 50
Boiling Springs Elementary 2353 18 18 12 12 30
Boiling Springs Jr. High 873 9 9 3 3 12
Chapman Elementary 1938 27 27 12 12 39
Mountain View Baptist 1087 9 9 2 2 11
Boiling Springs High School 1069 11 11 8 8 19
Ben Avon Methodist 1273 19 19 16 16 35
Absentee 0 117 117 81 81 198
Emergency 0 0 0 0 0 0
Failsafe 0 16 16 4 4 20
Provisional 0 0 0 0 0 0
Failsafe Provisional 0 2 2 0 0 2
Totals: 167004 2843 2843 1795 1795 4638
Follow links to “By county” and download results in Excel format.
Comments?
Yes.
Ha, ha, beat you because I was too lazy to put the download in my post.
freakin tabs get me every time…
It took me awhile to find, because The Brad Blog’s layout seems to have been inspired by Angelfire, but here’s Rawls’ campaign manager, as reported in this Politico story:
:eek: (if true)
I don’t see anywhere that he claimed Greene received more votes than were cast in 25 counties, so I think that blog is mistaken.
http://www2.counton2.com/cbd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/rawl_files_protest_of_tuesdays_election_results/146706/ Here is 538 story about malfunctioning machines.
Maybe. But Bradblog has been covering the voter machine irregularities for several years. The SC race was a horrible statistical anomaly. You can not reconcile it with math or defend with logic. It made no sense. The absentee ballots, which can be verified , were hugely in favor of Rawl. Lets face it, something is rotten in that election.