Clyburn Claims 'Hacking' Behind Greene's Surprise Win in S.C. Senate Race

[Desertdog]

It's a plant by the Republicans.  It's hacked machines.  It can''t be true, our man got beat with no effort.  No don't tell me it's true, I'll never belive it.  The Republicas must be at fault.  Any excuse, no matter what the truth is.


Clyburn Claims 'Hacking' Behind Greene's Surprise Win in S.C. Senate Race

Published June 15, 2010
| FOXNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/15/clyburn-claims-hacking-greenes-surprise-win-sc-senate-race/?test=latestnews

Hackers must be behind Senate candidate Alvin Greene's victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary last week, Rep. James Clyburn claimed in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

Trying to account for how a candidate who had no money and no campaign infrastructure was able to pull out a victory over a well-funded local lawmaker in a statewide race, the powerful South Carolina Democrat said the touch-screen voting machines used by the state are notoriously unreliable. Without citing evidence, Clyburn said the voting machines could have been compromised.

"I believe there was some hacking done into that computer," Clyburn told Fox News, suggesting that somebody at the state could have deliberately bought those machines so that the system would be vulnerable. South Carolina uses a machine called the iVotronic.

"Maybe somebody wanted the machines that were easily hacked into ... We had no business with those machines in South Carolina," he said.

The State Election Commission rejected that theory on Tuesday. Chris Whitmire, spokesman for the commission, said the department has not detected even a hint of fraud or hacking in Tuesday's election and dismissed the charge that the system is not dependable.

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"We've used this voting system since 2004 and it has always performed as it is designed to perform and it's been accurate and reliable," he told FoxNews.com. Whitmire said the 12,000 machines used by South Carolina have been used for "thousands of candidates" and that "no candidate has made this claim before."

Several theories have emerged for how Greene was able to pull out a victory over former state lawmaker Vic Rawl, including speculation that Greene's position at the top of the ballot helped him win votes.

Democrats are understandably alarmed over Greene's win. In interviews shortly after his surprise win, he demonstrated a lack of understanding about key policy issues that a senator would be expected to grasp. He also is facing a felony charge allegedly for showing pornography to a college student.

Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Tuesday that showed Republican Sen. Jim DeMint trouncing Greene in a general election. The poll showed DeMint pulling 58 percent to Greene's 21 percent. The poll of 500 likely state voters was conducted June 10. It had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

Clyburn continued to allege Tuesday that Greene was a "plant," though not explicitly saying the Republican Party put him there.

"Whether it was just to manipulate the outcome or just to carry out some mischief, I don't know. But laws were broken and investigation needs to take place," he said.

Greene's defeated opponent Rawl is calling for such a review. He filed a protest with the state party. The executive committee of the South Carolina Democratic Party will meet Thursday to review the filing.

Rawl told Fox News on Tuesday that he never saw one piece of campaign material from Greene before the election. He said he's not sure yet whether his protest will lead to a formal appeal of the vote.

"I don't know if I will appeal or not. I cross that bridge as I get to it. We take this situation one step at a time," he said.

Rawl's campaign had election experts review the results and said they turned up startling irregularities. Rawl has also questioned the reliability of the voting machines used by South Carolina.

Republicans have dismissed the allegation or suggestion that someone in the party planted Greene to sabotage the race. State Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson said Democrats are just "embarrassed" that Greene won.

[makattak]

The poll showed DeMint pulling 58 percent to Greene's 21 percent. The poll of 500 likely state voters was conducted June 10. It had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

So Clyburn is claiming some sort of fraud but TWENTY ONE PERCENT of South Carolina voters will still vote for this guy.

That says a lot about the Democrat party in South Carolina. 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

clyburns hands are tied   the race card has been nullified

[Scout26]

IIRC, it was the 1986 Illinois Statewide offices that LaRouche candidates won in the Democratic primary and the establishment Dems got their collective panties in a knot.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Hart

When your base is the illiterate, the uneducated, the stupid, the ignorant and the downright morons, then this can be the expected result.

[Boomhauer]

Clyburn's a real piece of work...I consider him on the same level of Cynthia McKinney, Fienstien, et al. Just nutters foaming at the mouth.

Notice Clyburn's real mum on the role the "unreliable" machines played in electing him. That was a totally fair/honest election, of course.

[longeyes]

Look, things are bad, we need some comic relief.  This story's supplying it.

[dogmush]

Enter more comic relief:

John Stewart on Greene's victory

[grampster]

Somebody ought to ask Jim March what he thinks about the machines being corrupted.

[Perd Hapley]

Enter more comic relief:

John Stewart on Greene's victory

Holy...   

[longeyes]

The Framers warned us about "democracy"...

[kgbsquirrel]

I knew it was only a matter of time before a congresscritter cried "haxz0rs!"  Where's a real life version of Nelson to laugh at people during their press conferences when you need him?

[Sergeant Bob]

I wonder if Clyburn might have entertained the notion that maybe, he just sucks?

[roo_ster]

Candidate Greene, though not covering himself in glory, comes off better than Clyburn & co.

Matter of fact, I think Greene has a thing or four to teach a certain buffoon of a Court Jester Vice President. 

[Desertdog]

Candidate Greene, though not covering himself in glory, comes off better than Clyburn & co.

What if Candidate Green wins in November.  The Dems will probably try to outlaw the electronic voting machines.

[AZRedhawk44]

Alvin Green
Victor Rawl

Look at those two names.

If you were a dumbass Doofus Americanus, going into the polls, and knew nothing about either of these guys, who would YOU vote for, just based on the name?

"Victor Rawl" sounds like a dark, nefarious Lord of the Sith mixed with a Terry Goodkind commu-fascist wizard overlord.  Might as well spell "Victor" with a k, just to complete the package.  "Viktor."  It's an inherently sinister name.

[Scout26]

In Chicago, the party favorite(s) always jockey to be the first name on the list of candidates.  Again, when your voting base doesn't have two brain cells to rub together, then you need to make voting idiot-proof.

But as Murphy proves, when you make something idiot-proof, along come better idiots. 

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Candidate Greene, though not covering himself in glory, comes off better than Clyburn & co.

Absolutely. The worst case of sore loser-ship ever from Clyburn, Rawl and friends.

[Balog]

He also is facing a felony charge allegedly for showing pornography to a college student.

Ummm, what?

[AZRedhawk44]

1 - Some college students can be minors, potentially.  Unknown if this one was, or not.

2 - It can be lude behavior, indecent exposure, sexual harrassment, or interpreted into similar local statutes.

[MicroBalrog]

1 - Some college students can be minors, potentially.  Unknown if this one was, or not.

She's 18.

[Waitone]

I'm watching this story.  There is more than enough reason to look at the voting machines.  No mention so far the manufacturer but the product features include NO PAPER TRAIL and evidently NO DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE SOFTWARE WORKS.  And my personal favorite?  They were bought used from Louisiana.

Laughter at Clyburn's conspiracy is certainly justified; the machines used in voting are suspect.

[Boomhauer]

Laughter at Clyburn's conspiracy is certainly justified; the machines used in voting are suspect.

I agree that the machines are suspect, but I just love how he claims that they were rigged for this election, but when he was elected, it was totally fair and above the board in his opinon...

[longeyes]

What was hacked, the voting machines or the minds of a whole lot of state voters?

[HankB]

In response to a comment from David Axelrod, Ann Coulter is asking a tough question about this race:

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?)

[AZRedhawk44]

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Greene was not a "legitimate" candidate

THAT worries me.

Not for the Coulter-snark about experience and associations, but for the elitism expressed as far as what constitutes a legitimate candidate. 

Whatever his failings in running a campaign, he was a registered Democrat who paid his filing fee to be on the primary, ran a campaign (or lack of one) as he saw fit, and won.

It's dangerous for you when the White House says you're not "legitimate."