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Opinion: Cast Your Ballot Against Electronic Voting
By Brad Friedman - AOL News
(Nov. 1) -- They're easily manipulated, constantly flip votes from one candidate to another, often fail even to turn on at all, and they are never ever verifiable as accurately reflecting the will of the voters who used them. Yet election officials continue to force their constituents to cast their precious votes on them nonetheless. What are they? Direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems -- usually touch-screen voting machines, though sometimes they have a wheel or push buttons. Either way, they all work -- or don't work -- the same way. Just how problematic are these machines? ...
Flawed Candidates Make 2010 the Year of Living Dangerously
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyI'm betting both parties would love to restart this campaign season and call do-overs on more than a few primaries. Maybe the choices weren't ideal, but in some very high-stakes races, the candidates who won are showing why they probably shouldn't have. This phenomenon can be found coast to coast and points in between: Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida, Kentucky, Illinois and California. In some cases, the outcome of the general-election contests is unlikely to change even with a deeply flawed winner. But in others, we're talking about real impact inside and outside a state. ...
What's on Alvin Greene's Mind? Let's See. Hmm ...
By Billy Baker - AOL News(July 10) -- For the record, Alvin Greene thinks his story is "not too weird." He may be the only one. The 32-year-old unemployed Army vet's rise to U.S. Senate contender is one of the more bizarre political narratives in recent memory. Last month, he won the Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina in a landslide. Before then, no one had ever heard of Greene, and he didn't really do anything to earn the nomination (short of paying the $10,400 filing fee): no campaign to speak of, no rallies, no fundraising, nothing. The stunning victory set off a swirl of theories, from Greene's being a ...
A Guided Tour of Alvin Greene's Weird New Campaign Website
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsThere are many divisive and controversial figures in American politics these days, but none have managed to acquire quite the reputation of mystery, intrigue and sheer strangeness as Alvin Greene, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina. The 32-year-old Army veteran appeared on the national political radar earlier this month, winning the South Carolina Democratic Senate primary seemingly out of nowhere, despite having no job, "no political experience, no money and no campaign organization," as AOL News writer Steve Pendlebury put it. The win was all the more surprising ...
In South Carolina, Alvin Greene Wins -- Again -- Without Showing Up
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- It was going to be tough for any South Carolina Democrat to defeat Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in November. Now that state Democratic Party officials have upheld the surprising June 8 primary win of Alvin Greene -- a 32-year-old unemployed veteran facing a felony obscenity charge -- "long shot" doesn't begin to describe his or the party's chances in this race. A Thursday meeting of the party's executive committee considered a protest by Vic Rawl of Charleston, the former state legislator and judge whom Greene defeated with 60 percent of the vote. The committee could ...
Alvin Greene's S.C. Primary Win: Elections Board Declines to Investigate
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyAlvin Greene's controversial -- and curious -- victory in last week's Senate primary in South Carolina will not be investigated by the state's election commission. Chris Whitmire, a spokesman for the commission, said it sees "no reason to initiate an investigation into our voting system," according to the Hill. "We have full confidence in the reliability and accuracy of the state's voting system and we have nothing to indicate there was any voting-system failure on June 8. The system has performed accurately and consistently." Greene is a jobless veteran who won 58 percent of the vote ...
Vic Rawl Files Protest Over Alvin Greene's Victory in S.C. Senate Race
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyVic Rawl, the former judge and state legislator who lost badly to a political unknown who did not even campaign in the race for the South Carolina Democratic Senate nomination, filed a formal protest on Monday with the party over the election outcome, citing "strange circumstances" that required a "thorough investigation." Rawl was bested by an unemployed military veteran named Alvin M. Greene who came up with the $10,400 filing fee last March but did little (some say no) campaigning. But on primary day he was nominated with almost 60 percent of the vote. Rawl based his protest on "ongoing ...
Many Questions, Few Answers From Alvin Greene
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(June 14) -- With every interview he does, the mystery of would-be U.S. senator Alvin Greene gets deeper and stranger. A week ago, virtually nobody had heard of the unemployed veteran with no political experience, no money and no campaign organization. Now he's generating as much buzz as those blasted vuvuzela horns at the World Cup matches. Ever since his shocking victory over former state lawmaker Vic Rawl in Tuesday's South Carolina Democratic primary, reporter after reporter has tried -- with little success -- to pry information out of Greene. To say Greene is a man of few words is a ...
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