GOP CANDIDATE DEFEATS DEMOCRAT BY 300 VOTES
Republican Kirkman Finlay has defeated Democrat Joe McCulloch in the race for S.C. House District 75 – one of only a handful of competitive races for the S.C. General Assembly this year.
According to the first official count provided by the Richland County (S.C.) Election Commission, Finlay received 7,207 votes (51.1 percent) to McCulloch’s 6,891 votes (48.8 percent). That’s basically an eight-point swing from a week ago, when the Associated Press reported that Finlay had lost the race by a 53-47 percent margin.
Polling provided to FITS in advance of last week’s vote showed Finlay besting McCulloch by a much wider margin – which in our book constitutes further proof that turnout in more conservative Richland County precincts was suppressed last week in an effort to ensure passage of a controversial $1.2 billion county sales tax hike.
How’d that happen? Well, predominantly Republican precincts all across Richland County were not provided with a sufficient number of voting machines – a flagrant violation of state law. As a result thousands of registered voters – most of them likely planning to vote against the tax increase – were subjected to wait times ranging as long as four to seven hours, prompting many of them to give up their quest to vote.
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Given that Finlay’s victory margin would have probably been wider had there not been such widespread voter fraud, Democrats don’t appear to be interested in challenging these results.
“Congrats to Finlay,” one Democratic staffer told FITS in response to the first official count being released.
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9 comments
FITS, I agree with your analysis in your third paragraph (and following). I’ve been smelling that same stink this whole time. No way should Finlay’s victory have been that close with the tax vote “winning” by such a wide margin.
But stay tuned… who knows… when they finish counting all the “lost ballots” from lost or malfunctioning machines, that District 75 race could turn the other way.
One more thing; in your next-to-last paragraph when you say, “…had there not been such widespread voter fraud,” you should’ve referred to it as “ELECTION FRAUD,” right?
How did Wes Hayes and Larry Martin do?
They set out to do good, but wound up doing well.
Where’s Guero? I’d like to hear some more pontificating on the proper role of government with some bitching about Finlay.
well with Darrell Jackson running around columbia garnering support to keep McBride, we should have these kinds of elections for years to come.
Hold the presses, The State is now reporting that they’ve found two more bags of uncounted paper ballots. How this woman can keep her job is beyond me.
It appears quite clear why RHINO Courson was so well like and endorsed by the delegation. This POS was part of the cabal that put the incompetent McBride in the high buck job.
Fear not. You can trust the integrity of the vote. We solved all of our problems with our voter ID law. Now you can trust the vote.
The voter ID addresses voter fraud.
This debacle in Richland Co. isn’t voter fraud. It’s election fraud.