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Vic Rawl Concedes SC-SEN Democratic Primary To Alvin Greene | TPMDC
That should put a damper on (if not an end to) the conspiracy theories and complaints.
edit: Also, more information on the claims of voting irregularities:
http://charlestonreader.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/politico-falls-for-phony-stats/
Sounds like that whole claim was BS.
Former South Carolina judge and ex-state legislator Vic Rawl has officially conceded the Democratic primary for Senate, after he had attempted to contest his upset loss to unemployed veteran Alvin Greene.
Rawl had originally insisted that there were irregularities or errors in vote-counting in his loss to Greene. A more common explanation has been that both candidates were unknown, and Greene's 60% victory owed something to his name having been listed in the first position on the ballot. And last night, the state Democratic Party upheld Greene's win, despite the embarrassment and scandals surrounding his arrest last fall on an obscenity charge.
That should put a damper on (if not an end to) the conspiracy theories and complaints.
edit: Also, more information on the claims of voting irregularities:
http://charlestonreader.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/politico-falls-for-phony-stats/
That brings us to the experts’ second argument: “In Spartanburg County, Ludwig said there are 25 precincts in which Greene received more votes than were actually cast and 50 other precincts where votes appeared to be missing from the final count.”
The claim of 25 precincts having over-votes for Greene appears to be completely without basis. It doesn’t take a “national academic expert” to check the facts. Any fool, including us, can go to the SC State Election Commission website to view the certified official vote counts in each race in each precinct in each county. Check the vote totals in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Spartanburg County against the total votes cast on a Democratic ballot in those same precincts. You’ll find that not only do no Greene vote totals exceed the total votes cast, but never do the combined Greene and Rawl totals exceed them either.
Sounds like that whole claim was BS.
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