The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud

cSeattleGameboy writes "South Carolina sure knows how to pick 'em. Alvin Greene is a broke, unemployed guy who is facing a felony obscenity charge. He made no campaign appearances and raised no money, but he is the brand new Democratic Senate nominee from South Carolina. Tom Schaller at FiveThirtyEight.com does a detailed analysis of how a guy like this wins a primary race, and many of the signs point to voting machine fraud. There seem to have been irregularities on all sides. 'Dr. Mebane performed second-digit Benford's law tests on the precinct returns from the Senate race. ... If votes are added or subtracted from a candidate's total, possibly due to error or fraud, Mebane's test will detect a deviation from this distribution. Results... showed that Rawl's Election Day vote totals depart from the expected distribution at 90% confidence. In other words, the observed vote pattern for Rawl could be expected to occur only about 10% of the time by chance. ... An unusual, non-random pattern in the precinct-level results suggests tampering, or at least machine malfunction, perhaps at the highest level. And Mebane is perhaps the leading expert on this very subject. Along with the anomalies between absentee ballot v. election day ballots..., something smells here.' Techdirt.com points out that South Carolina uses ES&S voting machines, which have had strings of problems before; and they have no audit trail."

Comments

November test run

[Porchroof]

The South Carolina vote is just a test run for the November election. The goal is to re-elect the left-wing Congress and the only guaranteed way of doing that is to cheat. But it looks like Obama's team needs to tweak its method of cheating.

Re:He Won!

[skelterjohn]

I interpreted PDS as to be the affliction tormenting those who are so deranged as to think that Palin is anything other than an idiot.

Re:Slander...

[DaveV1.0]

How the fuck did your ignorant post get modded interesting? Are slashdotters really this stupid?

In hte USSA everything is a felony or chargeable offense, so being a felon doesn't necessarily mean anything.

That is a bald-faced lie and everyone, including yourself, knows it. Stop being an asshole and stick to the facts instead of trying to say that everything is against the law because some of the stupid shit you like to do is against the law.

Being broke may lead to obscenity in public, such as "Fuck I wish I could afford a cold glass of iced tea right now, it's hot out"

Even if one were to be arrested on such a charge, every time it has happened, the charges have been thrown out thanks the the First Amendment.

the obscenity that gets you a permanant record as a sex offender, taking a leak in public such as "Damn I drank too much iced tea, I'll step off this path here and take a leak behind these shrubberies before I piss myself"

Taking a leak in public is not a sex offense anywhere in the United States. Your example is a bald-faced lie.

His obscenity charge stems from showing porn to a college student. Maybe if you had bothered to learn about the controversy you would have known that. Now, how about the facts behind the felony obscenity charges:

Camille McCoy, a 19-year-old rising sophomore at the University of South Carolina, said she called campus police after Greene sat down next to her in a computer lab and asked her to look at his screen, which showed a pornographic website.

"I said, 'That's offensive,' and he sat there laughing," said McCoy, who was 18 at the time. "It was very disgusting. He said, 'Let's go to your room now.' It was kind of scary. He's a pretty big boy. He could've overpowered me."

Next time, do a little research before spouting off.