America’s candidate, victorious.
Dude, I think it’s endorsement time.
The South Carolina Democratic Party’s Executive Committee Thursday rejected a protest of the June 8 primary for U.S. Senate, in which Alvin Greene defeated Vic Rawl.
The decision came down about 8:20 p.m. The final vote was 38 1/2 to reject the protest, 7 1/2 in favor of it…
During the hearing, a USC professor, Walter Ludwig, said his analysis noticed discrepancies with vote totals.
“There is one county, Lancaster County, where the disparity between absentee ballots, optical scan ballots, and the election day ballots was 43 percent,” Ludwig said. “This is not a small county. This is a fairly big sample size.”
One voter testified that when she tried to vote for governor, a gray screen came up which said that she had voted for Greene for Senate.
There are other challenges to the results pending before various electoral commissions, but the powers that be appear to be taking a dim view of the complaints. Incidentally, to follow up on my earlier point about the racial implications involved in overturning the results, have a look at the stemwinder published early this morning at HuffPo by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The title says it all: “If the GOP tried to dump Greene Democrats would loudly scream racism.” Truer words were never written, and doubtless South Carolina’s Democratic committee realized it. Which, let me emphasize, should take nothing away from their decision. I’ve thought all along that Greene got the most votes. Good to see that they think so too.
Long story short: Rawl tried to sweep the leg. It backfired.
Update: Oh, by the way. If you think the Democrats are the party in South Carolina that’s working hardest to undermine its own nominee, kindly think again.
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