Reply #18: I'm not surprised

[Jane Eyre]

Go ahead and flame me if you want, but the grounds upon which the challenge were filed were pretty flimsy. It was all anecdotal information. Did anyone take a picture or video of a malfunctioning voting machine? Did anyone call over a witness to show them what was happening when they tried to vote? Was there any hard evidence at all that this took place? Did a programmer step forward to describe specifically how the machines were hacked? Frankly, without a paper trail there is no way that these votes can be validated one way or another. All you have is a bunch of stories about what might have happened.

If there was an effort to get people to vote for Greene over Rawl, perhaps an effort by right-wing groups to encourage crossover voting or promoting Greene's candidacy among his most-likely voters, it would seem that this would have come out by now. People talk. People in small SC towns talk especially, but ain't nobody talked about how this effort might have been mounted. I'm starting to think that it was merely a case of Mr. Greene being first on the ballot and having a more pleasant sounding name than Mr. Rawl.

The real issue is where did he get the money to file. And it is possible that he got the money legitimately. I mean, the fact that Mr. Greene now believes he should be Time's Man of the Year may be indicative of some long-standing psychological need to be important at all costs even if his desires don't square with reality.