South Carolina Democrat Vic Rawl has lined up hired independent experts and is calling for an official investigation of his stunning loss to unknown Alvin Greene in the U.S. Senate primary last week. There is a tendency to treat all post-election complaints by the losers as so many sour grapes.  The site TechDirt, however, suggests an alternative and very scary explanation as to how Alvin Greene upset Vic Rawl that needs to be taken seriously.  It starts with a basic question most political writers prefer to ignore. Does South Carolina use electronic voting machines?  Not only does it turn out that the answer is yes, but there are some huge huge red flags about this contest.  According to Rawl's campaign manager, Walter Ludwig, in Politico, it seems Rawl won 84 percent of the absentee ballots in Lancaster county, yet the unknown Alvin Greene carried the county 17...(Read Full Post)