campaign, didn t do a thing. still won the election by about 20 points over a guy called vick rawl,former state lawmaker. rawl in the last couple of days said he had serious issues with the m a pain. he thought maybe there was irregular, they met on thursday. they decided not to overturn the results, so alvin greene is still the candidate. there was no fraud, there was no evidence of machines were bad, no evidence that he s a republican plant, are a lot of people just accepting the fact that the folks went into the voting booth and they weren t informed about the candidates and they just clicked the guy on top with the name they kind of recognized? a lot of people are fessing up to that right about now. seeing some quotes and interviews from people in south carolina who voted for alvin greene, yeah, my cousin s last name is greene. t.j., when you ve got two people who basically nobody knows in the state.
despite being unemployed try to pay his entire $10,000 filing fee with a personal check. the nomination of alvin greene for u.s. senate will stand. does that make it seem any less audacious that he nominated himself to also be time magazine s person of the year? the state committee rejecting the personal protest filed by vick rawl. he lost to a man who never left his living room. the state newspaper reporting rawl said faulty voting machines were to blame for the loss and requesting a new vote with paper ballots. despite several party ochl officials using to attend. carol fowler saying she asked mr. greene not to run. not because of something in his past but because he seemed so naive. apparently that is not true in the least. he was arrested in september. on a charge of felony obscenity,
vick rawl. he lost to a man who never left his living room. the state newspaper reporting rawl said faulty voting machines were to blame for the loss and requesting a new vote with paper ballots. carol fowler saying she asked mr. greene not to run. not because of something in his past but because he seemed so naive. apparently that is not true in the least. he was arrested in september. he was providing some insight into what a campaign would be like. his focus, jobs, and focus in the judicial decision. he said he s the best candidate to focus jim demint in september and i am also the best candidate to be time magazine s man of the year. joining us is chris hayes.
in south carolina today, democrats are deciding whether to throw out results of a senate primary election. an unknown and unemployed millry veteran alvin greene won the nomination last week over a political veteran vick rawl. a lot of mystery and controversy though surrounding the vote. let s bring in our national political correspondent jessica yellin working this story for us. what s the latest as far as protests and other stuff is concerned? there s a lot of action happening on this tonight, wolf, and it s really one of the most peculiar elections anyone has ever covered. south carolina democrats, they are mystified and embarrass that had alvin greene, a man the party has never heard of and did no campaigning won. now his opponent vick rawl, who is a longtime state legislator is challenging the results of the election. tonight he s challenging them saying there were voting irregularities, and there is a hearing going on before the south carolina state democratic party s executive
counties rawl won overwhelmingly in absentee voting and lost by a landslide on election day when electronic voting machines were in use. there are also anecdotal stories from some voters that they tried voting for vick rawl but his name didn t come up. the electronic voting machine only let them select greene. the hearing before the state democratic committee is going to be over whether there were actual voting irregularities. that s the only thing they can decide on. they could redo the election, but it s important to note they have never decided to overturn a statewide race like this one, wolf. it s never happened before, so it seems unlikely here. again, hearing that evidence now, they could decide as early as tonight. they will take a look at the voting irregularities. yes. have to go back to the paper ballots. that s an easy way to recount and find out what s going on. thanks very much. exactly. a story we ll continue to watch for you for all of our viewers. other impo