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Ärende: South Carolina
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On 06-15-10, BOB ACKLEY said to ROSS SAUER:


RS>>> Something stinks in the South Carolina senate race, and it isn't
RS>>>   a pig farm.


RS>>> Latest news, in 25 precincts, more votes were counted by those
RS>>> furshlugginer ESS voting computerized no-confirmation machines,
RS>>> than  there were votes cast.






ALVIN GREENE: THE MOST QUALIFIED DEMOCRAT I'VE EVER SEEN



Ann Coulter


June 16, 2010


Democrats have decided that Alvin Greene's surprise victory in the South
Carolina Democratic senatorial primary must be the result of a Republican
dirty trick.

Greene beat Vic Rawl, a former state representative and judge, with a whopping
60 percent of the vote in last Tuesday's primary, despite Greene's having no
job, no house, no campaign website, no campaign headquarters -- indeed, no
campaign. Other than paying the $10,000 filing fee, Greene seems to have put
no effort into the race whatsoever.


But he does have one thing Rawl doesn't have: In the grand tradition of
legendary Democrats such as Teddy Kennedy, Greene has a felony arrest.
(Greene's inexperience really shows here: Democrats usually wait until after
they're elected to show pornography to college girls.)


So this is not good for the Democrats. Naturally, therefore, they're blaming
Republicans.


Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., has demanded that the U.S. attorney investigate,
ominously suggesting that Greene may be a Republican plant. Clyburn is the
third-ranking Democrat in the House.


MSNBC's Keith Olbermann interviewed Greene as if he had Lee Harvey Oswald in
the dock. Chris Matthews asked guests: "Do you think this has the look of a
dirty trick -- sort of a Watergate number?" Watergate, you'll recall, involved
the Nixon White House trying to persuade a mildly retarded black man to run
for the Senate.


Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Greene was not a "legitimate"
candidate and called his victory "a mysterious deal." (Yes, how could a young
African-American man with strange origins, suspicious funding, shady
associations, no experience, no qualifications, and no demonstrable work
history come out of nowhere and win an election?)


They're hopping mad, these liberals, but it's not clear what their theory of
the crime is. Before accusing Republicans of committing a dirty trick,
apparently no one asked the question: "OK, but what was the trick?"


The key to Greene's victory, you see, is that he got more votes. How do
liberals imagine Republicans pulled that off? Mesmerize the Democrats into
voting for an idiot? If Republicans could do that, John McCain would be
president.


There is zero possibility that Republicans skipped their own primary to vote
for Greene in the Democratic primary. The marquee South Carolina election in
last Tuesday's primary was the four-candidate, mudslinging Republican
gubernatorial primary. That one was so heated, it's still to be decided in a
runoff next week.


Even Sarah Palin got involved in the race, endorsing Nikki Haley (though not
endorsing anyone in the Nevada primary, as I incorrectly gave her credit for
in last week's column).


Not surprisingly, more than twice as many South Carolinians voted in the
Republican primary (424,893) as voted in the Democratic primary (197,380). Not
only that, but a higher percentage of Republican primary voters chose a
candidate for Senate (97.12 percent) than did the Democratic primary voters
(86.24 percent).


Perhaps realizing this, liberal loons (Keith Olbermann) are now pushing the
theory that Republicans somehow ... rigged the voting machines! (This is what
happens when you know absolutely nothing about politics but are given a TV
show.)


I promise you, if Republicans could have rigged any voting machines, they
would have made sure Nikki Haley won by 51 percent, instead of 49 percent, to
avoid next week's runoff.


The only thing a Republican could possibly have done is pay Greene's filing
fee.


It's likely that someone paid his filing fee, inasmuch as Greene doesn't
appear to have enough money to buy a sandwich.


But anyone could have paid it -- ACORN, a community organizer, a stimulus
grantor, Betty White. If a Republican paid the $10,000 filing fee, why not
give Greene another hundred bucks for a campaign website? Or how about making
it $150, so Greene could buy a new suit?


But, for the sake of argument, let's say a Republican paid Greene's filing
fee.


Even the worst-case scenario is still not half as bad as what liberals did to
Sen. Patrick Leahy's Republican opponent in 1998. To the delight of the media,
liberals ran a simpleton dairy farmer, Fred Tuttle, in the Republican primary
that year against a millionaire lawyer, Jack McMullen.

As in the South Carolina race, the serious candidate, McMullen, spent far more
than the prank candidate -- by about $300,000 to $200.

And as with Greene, Tuttle was a feeble-minded everyman. He had starred in a
movie, "Man With a Plan," made by his Harvard-graduate neighbor, about a
cornball farmer who runs for Congress. Having "Fred" actually run for the
Senate was openly described as a publicity stunt.


Fred won the primary and promptly endorsed Leahy.


The media lavished praise on the "gentlemanly" Senate race, with The
Associated Press calling it a "calm, folksy Senate campaign." Reporters think
there's too much "mudslinging" when the Republican candidate doesn't
immediately endorse the Democrat.


The movie starring Fred was run on PBS, sponsored by Ben & Jerry's ice cream,
and Fred -- the winsome simpleton -- was fawned over throughout the media.

(CBS' Bill Geist to Tuttle: "Are you a sex symbol?")


That's a far cry from how reporters are treating poor Alvin Greene:


CNN anchor Don Lemon: You're mentally sound, physically sound? You're not
impaired by anything at this moment?


Greene: No. Just -- I'm OK.


Lemon: No, just what?


Greene: I'm OK.


Lemon: Quite honestly, you don't sound OK. Are you impaired by anything right
now?


Greene: No.


I suppose you could say the Republican primary in Vermont was irrelevant
anyway since Sen. Leahy was a shoo-in for re-election.


But so is Jim DeMint, Alvin Greene's current opponent. Leahy won his prior
election, in 1992, 54.2 percent to 43.3 percent. Jim DeMint won his last
election, 53.7 percent to 44.1 percent.


And Alvin Greene is clearly more qualified to be a senator than Patrick Leahy.


















BA>> And people are surprised that I oppose completely computerizing the
BA>> voting process.

RS> You aren't the only one.
RS> The same companies that make computerized voting machines make ATM
RS> machines.

RS> ATM machines are used *FAR* more often than a voting machine, so why
RS> can't they give voters a paper receipt, like ATM machines do?

BA>It doesn't even have to be a receipt, just a paper record kept inside the
BA>box like
BA>cash registers (and ATMs) do.  Most folks don't know that cash registers
BA>keep a carbon of the register receipt, and that the managers can go
BA>through that tape to find problems.  It's called an 'audit trail.'

RS> Also, voting machines have been found to be hackable, without any
RS> difficulty.

BA>One easy way is to simply pre-load some number of votes before the polls
BA>open. If discovered - as in more votes counted than there were voters who
BA>checked in -
BA>it was simply test data that was 'inadvertently' left on the machine.  Of
BA>course,
BA>there's no way to factor out those preloaded numbers after the voting

BA>starts. --- FleetStreet 1.19+



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