If South Carolina used anything but the exact same 100% unverifiable voting machines that previously resulted in the inexplicable election of Alvin Greene as their 2010 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, I’d say Stephen Colbert’s sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch has just won her upcoming May 7th Special Election for the U.S. House over former Gov. Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford.
The complaint says Jenny Sanford confronted Sanford leaving her Sullivans Island home on Feb. 3 by a rear door, using his cell phone for a flashlight. Her attorney filed the complaint the next day and Jenny Sanford confirmed Tuesday the documents are authentic.
The couple’s 2010 divorce settlement says neither may enter the other’s home without permission. Mark Sanford lives about a 20-minute drive away in downtown Charleston.
But again, before you Democrats get too excited at this point, please read this. Thank you.
UPDATE 4/17/2013: Sanford responds and National Republicans toss him under bus…
First, via NBC:
Next, Politico is reporting that the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) is tossing Sanford under the bus:
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“This is an unfortunate situation but this is what happens when candidates aren’t honest and withhold information,” said one GOP operative.
UPDATE 5/7/2013: Despite Colbert Busch’s 9pt lead in the polls two weeks ago, and the race declared a “toss-up” by pollsters over the weekend, Sanford has now been declared the “winner” by a landslide tonight by SC’s 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting system. Details now here…
Not to be a nattering nabob of negativity but the Applachian Trail has many winding paths. It’s easy for a “Family Values” guy to get lost.
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This would be one of the rare instances in which casting a paper absentee ballot would be better than faith-based voting on what amounts to an electronic black hole, aka the ES&S iVotronic touch screen Direct Recording Electronic (DRE).
Unfortunately, eligibility to cast absentee ballots is quite limited in South Carolina.
Still Clueless About Touch-Screens in S. Carolina
An electronic vote count is not dependent upon moral scruples. For the machine, it is of no moment whether Sanford is actually guilty of criminal trespass. The machine will produce whatever numbers its hidden source code has been programmed to produce.
http://www.soesoftware.com/
ernest, to be fair,we do not know if the pre determined results are programmed into the machines or the soe software that reports them…or a little into both
but since no person can double check either, both are unconstitutional
I’m not sure that this alone would be enough to definitely turn voters off (as if their votes are accurately counted and machines that have produced impossible-looking results in the past). It sounds like an odd domestic personal dispute, to be sure, but folks of all ideologies get into those. What I find more disturbing are the corporate deals polititicans that erode what is necessary for the well-being of a majority of citizens, and a lot of that is done in broad daylight with little press reaction or public outcry.
Wow my comment is filled with typos and words that should be omitted. Wish there was a way for commenters to go in edit their own comments. Something like this?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plu...edit-comments/
This is all Jenny Sanford’s fault. If she did not let her self go, then Mark would not have been forced to outsource their marital relations to Argentina.
Now his pregnant mistress, (another anchor baby), yells at him in spanish all day long. So he sneaked over to Jenny’s to she if she wanted a quickie! Whats the big deal???
You keep trying to denigrate Alvin Greene’s primary VICTORY with no proof whatsoever of fraud other than your own heartfelt feeling that somebody else should have won. Heartfelt feelings are nice, but that’s not how elections are decided. Show us some real facts that the election was stolen before you find another excuse to run somebody’s name into the ground.
The ironically self-named “Democracy in Election Process” said @ 8:
Actually, here’s what I have proof for: Of votes that can actually be known to reflect the voter’s intent, Vic Rawl defeated Alvin Greene. So, do you have ANY evidence that Greene defeated Rawl? Because the existing verifiable evidence suggests the opposite.
Correct. They are decided by verified and authenticated votes by actual human beings. Or used to be. So, where is your verified and authenticated evidence that, other than your heartfelt feeling that Greene won, he actually did?
I’ll be waiting for it. Have been for about two years. Lemme know when ya got something.
I didn’t claim it was stolen. I don’t make claims I can’t back up with actual evidence. You, on the other hand, seem to be claiming that Greene won the election. Cool. Please provide the proof or tell me where I can find it! Because, to date, nobody has shown that to me, or to Vic Rawl, the man who was told he lost, but was never shown any actual evidence to support that. In fact, when he tried to look directly at the evidence, he was told he could not, that it was the proprietary property of the ES&S company.
So…still waiting. Lemme know. Until then, it’s cute how you chose a name that is the opposite of what you apparently believe in. Nice work!