Asking? Asking? WTF!

[lonestarnot]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0616/aclu-south-carolina-erase-voting-records/

The American Civil Liberties Union has waded into the controversy over South Carolina's bizarre Democratic primaries last week, which ended with the Senate nomination going to an unknown, unemployed candidate who won more votes than were cast in some counties.

The ACLU has sent a letter (PDF) to the South Carolina State Election Commission asking it not to allow the state's counties to erase the voting records from the June 8 primary, which saw favored candidate Vic Rawl lose the Senate nomination to unknown Alvin Greene by a 59-to-41 margin.

"We take no position on whether there were irregularities sufficient to place the outcome of the election in doubt but believe the voters in South Carolina are entitled to know that their votes were properly counted," the ACLU letter states. "That assurance can only be given if the information on the flash cards is preserved and audited."

[panader0]

1. My take on Greene:

He was a puppet of some repub who put up the money and worked the voting machines. Then, in the general election, he could be defeated.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. What if we hacked it so that way Demented is defeated

by three votes.. And all of the electronic records are purged and their machine shits itself to death.

[lonestarnot]

3. Sounds like a shitty mess to me!

;)

[BeFree]

4. It was just a computer Glitch

Y'know how sometimes DU will double post? That's a computer Glitch.

So the Glitches in the SC machines gave double votes to Greene a coulpa times.

I'm sure they'll get all the Glitches ironed out before something really serious happens, eh?

[Fumesucker]

5. The ACLU is about as popular as Satan in South Carolina.. n/t

[lonestarnot]

7. This isn't a fucking popularity contest.

[Fumesucker]

9. That's exactly what politics is, a popularity contest.. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

6. You always ask politely before you file the law suit.

[Laelth]

8. Um. It looks like the ACLU wants the data preserved, not erased.

If that's the case, I support the ACLU in this.

:shrug:

:dem:

-Laelth

[Raineyb]

10. The ACLU is actually right. Regardless of what the hell happened the record of the vote

be it tampered with or not is evidence.

[TankerKC]

11. who won more votes than were cast in some counties.

Source? First I've heard of that.

[umeyer]

12. Run and we'll drop the obscenity charge

is probably what they said to him