Former South Carolina judge and state Rep. Vic Rawl announces Monday, June 14, 2010 in North Charleston, S.C., that he will formally protest the results of the June 8 primary for the Democratic nomination... (Associated Press) 
 
 The Democratic Party's 92-member executive committee plans a hearing Thursday on former state lawmaker Vic Rawl's protest and could order the primary results overturned. "As to who did it, why they did, whether it was an accident or was intentional, I have no idea and I don't feel comfortable commenting on that," he said. Greene won with 59 percent of the vote to 41 percent for Rawl. Rawl said he will present his team's full evidence at a meeting of the state party's 92-member executive committee Thursday in Columbia. If the panel denies his protest, he still could appeal to the state Supreme Court, he said. State Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said the agency is confident in the accuracy of the voting machines, though Democratic state Sen. Phil Leventis on Monday asked to have them all inspected because of alleged voting irregularities. Greene's win has touched off a storm of controversy in the Democratic Party, and he has become an object of fascination for the national media. Rawl, now a Charleston County council member, says he campaigned statewide, put 17,000 miles on his car and, in the days before the primary, sent out hundreds of thousands of e-mails and automated phone calls seeking voter support. Read Rawl's press release Press release from Vic Rawl 
 
 The day after Greene's primary win, the S.C. Democratic Party called on him to withdraw as the nominee-elect after it was reported that he faces a felony obscenity charge. That count stems from his November arrest for allegedly showing pornography to an 18-year-old University of South Carolina student in a computer lab at the school. Greene won't talk about the charge, but he has been plenty vocal about his intent to stay in the race. Rawl says he also heard of at least one voter in the Republican primary who had the Democratic U.S. Senate race appear on her ballot, and he said experts who have analyzed polling data noticed irregularities. He filed for and got a court-appointed attorney, something a prominent South Carolina lawyer said Monday should not have happened if he had the money for the filing fee. Rawl said he thinks something went wrong, though he can't say whether it was by accident or intention.
– Vic Rawl is crying foul over his defeat by total unknown Alvin Greene in the South Carolina Democratic primary for the US Senate. Rawl, a former judge and state lawmaker, has filed a formal protest with the state's Democratic Party over what he calls the "strange circumstances" surrounding his loss to Greene, an unemployed Army veteran, AP reports. Rawl, who received 41% of the vote to Greene's 59%, says he suspects his loss was the result of either faulty voting machines or malfunctioning software. He says several people have told him they pressed his name on the touch-screen ballot, only to see Greene's name apppear. "I sat on the bench for 12 years and I have a pretty good nose," Rawl tells the Charleston Post-Courier. "This does not smell right."