{"id":7902,"date":"2010-06-18T14:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:21:58","slug":"lack-of-election-integrity-in-sc-rawls-statement-on-state-dems-protest-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7902","title":{"rendered":"‘Lack of Election Integrity in SC’: Rawl’s Statement on State Dems Protest Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge Vic Rawl just released a public statement<\/a> on the heels of the SC Democratic Party Executive Board’s insane rejection yesterday<\/a> of his protest<\/a> to the 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic touch-screen system’s announced “victory” of Alvin Greene to be the state’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. Rawl’s statement reads in part:<\/p>\n

I wanted you to hear from me that we will not be appealing last night’s decision by the Democratic Executive Committee to reject our protest of the election results. My campaign for the United States Senate has ended.<\/p>\n

The issues we raised about the lack of election integrity in South Carolina are real, and they are not going away unless people act. I assure you that I will continue to speak out about our frail and vulnerable election system in the months to come.<\/p><\/div>\n

Rawl’s comments follow on both his own impromptu remarks<\/a> after yesterday’s protest was rejected, and his Campaign Manager Walter Ludwig’s barely-contained on-the-record comments<\/a> following the hearing: “We’re certainly disappointed, but the unique circumstances of this election gave us an opportunity to put the specter of voting machines in front of the national public in the strongest way since Bush v. Gore.”<\/p>\n

As we’ll be guest hosting the Mike Malloy Show<\/i><\/a> again for the first week of July, hopefully Rawl and\/or Ludwig will be able to join us to explain what the hell happened, what they intend to do about it, and what the hell is wrong with SC’s shameful, apparently democracy-hating, Democratic Party Executive Board. (See yesterday’s report & live blog of the hearings<\/a> for all the insane details.)<\/p>\n

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Previously related at The BRAD BLOG:<\/i><\/p>\n