Mark Bennett terrorized in final days of SC House District 105 campaign
Monday, June 9th 6:30 AM
Ron Paul Republican Candidate Terrorized
Claudia Lauer
Myrtle Beach Online
June 9, 2008
While no one agrees with everything a candidate for political office says, most people don’t respond by making threatening phone calls or breaking into the candidate’s house.
Mark Bennett, the 22-year-old running for S.C. House District 105 against three other Republicans, said he experienced some constituent hostility Saturday night, when he was the victim of three separate personal attacks including a break-in.
“I don’t know if they are all related, but I think it’s a big coincidence that after one, the others would happen,” the candidate said Sunday.
Bennett said after campaigning door to door Saturday, he met up with his wife, Anita, to go to dinner. As they were driving, just before 7:30 p.m., he received a call on his cell phone. A woman, who refused to identify herself, yelled at Bennett for 19 minutes over his stance on road improvement priorities in Horry County, he said. The last sentence the woman said to him was what really bothered the Bennetts, who were listening on the speaker phone.
“She said that she would hunt me down and yell at me in person and harm me in some way, and that she would make sure I was never elected to an office in Horry County,” Bennett said.
He and his wife went to dinner, but as he thought about it, Bennett said he decided talking to the police couldn’t hurt and filed a report at the Conway Police station while his wife went home. When his wife arrived at their Conway home, she found the front door had been kicked in.
“My wife called me while I was at the police station, and I sped home, followed by a police officer,” Bennett said. “Whoever it was, they didn’t take anything. The computer was there, the television was there, all my wife’s jewelry was there. They just left one of my campaign signs with a smiley face painted on it in the middle of the floor.”
Officials at the Conway Police Department confirmed Bennett filed an incident report for harassing phone calls and breaking-and-entering. Police said they did not know if the incidents were related.
“I mean, that’s intimidation, and it’s frightening. The thing is, Mark’s message is so spot on, he’s getting threats from people who disagree,” Matt Jarfi, a friend and campaign adviser to Bennett, said.
Bennett said he noticed Sunday morning that most of his political posters and signs were gone.
“If this is all related, then the weirdest thing to me is that the road-construction priorities are not something I would be able to change. They’re a county issue, and I’m running for a state office,” he said. “But this isn’t going to stop me from campaigning or from running.”
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3-26-08 8:01 AM
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Horry County Council Meeting 1/22/08
Chaos in Horry County Primary Elections 2008
Voters Turned Away Amongst Complete Chaos in Horry County, South Carolina Primary
By Matthew Jarfi
Make A Difference In Horry County
Chaos would be an understatement in describing the handling of the 2008 Republican Primary Elections in Horry County, South Carolina this past Saturday evening. Horry County is located on the coast of South Carolina and is home to Myrtle Beach. Murphy’s Law was in full effect for the Horry County Elections Commission as things that could go wrong, did go wrong.
A massive 80% of the ESS electronic voting machines were not able to “open up” in Saturday’s primary forcing almost all Horry County precincts to use paper ballots. When precincts opened Saturday morning a majority of the voting machines would not work at all. The Seawinds precinct had reported that the electronic voting machines were down “county wide.”
Paper ballots were issued to Horry County citizens in replacement of the voting machines. The process at the Seawinds precinct was you would take the backup ballot to a table and fill in the bubble next to the candidate that you wished to select in the primary. After filling in the bubble, you would next fold your ballot back and slide it in the manila envelope that you were given and return it to the precinct worker. On one side of the manila envelope you would put your name, address, and your signature. However, this was not protocol in Horry County.
Make A Difference In Horry County has confirmed that some precincts passed out legal pads and simply asked the voters to write their candidate’s name on the 8.5X11 paper. Early reports show that one precinct reportedly turned away voters for seven hours consecutively while at least one other precinct turned away voters but it is currently unknown as to how long. While it is still very early, it is not understood as to why this happened. If one precinct was able to simply ask voters to cast their ballot by writing their candidate down on a piece of paper, than why would another precinct turn away voters?
For those in Horry County who are not a fan of the electronic voting machines, the disabled machines could have been a blessing in disguise. The reason is simply because the South Carolina state Constitution specifically notes that ballots are not allowed be counted in secret. As it has been speculated that this only applies to the paper balloting, there was no back door for Horry County as the paper ballots had to be counted in public.
Election Fraud?
As Make A Difference In Horry County will investigate the plethora of information that was recorded via video and transcript over the election day, we will also be looking into a potential situation where voter fraud could have taken place. Our reasons for this include the fact that technicians did repair voting machines at precincts where voting machines were down, but it is unknown if the machines were set to a zero count. Additionally, votes were casted on yellow legal pad paper at a particular precinct and later counted in a room filled with stacks of the identical same yellow legal pad paper that was openly used by county officials while those ballots were being counted leaving the possibility open that there could have been suspicious activities to have taken place.
Please stay tuned for the latest information at www.madinhorrycounty.com
Horry County Council Meeting 1/8/08
Freedom Of Information Pack DVD is Done!
The Make A Difference In Horry County DVD is finally complete. After racking up many hours of looking for well rounded material to pack on to the DVD, the painstaking task of compressing the video and burning it to DVD is over.
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- Alex Jones new film ENDGAME documents the elites plan for one world government and eugenics program.
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- And finally is an 8 minute video about Ron Paul
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