Green Party Watch

via Ross Levin at IPR:

The full story from the South Carolina Green Party:

Eugene Platt is doing great work in local government alerting people to the serious problems with SC’s electronic voting machines.

Voting machines targeted: James Island PSD official pushes for replacement

BY EDWARD FENNELL

JAMES ISLAND — A day after engineering a “historic” vote by his fellow James Island Public Service District commissioners, Eugene Platt set his sights on a larger goal.

Platt on Tuesday urged James Island Town Council to adopt a resolution calling for South Carolina to replace its electronic touch-screen voting machines. The iVotronic machines, Platt contends, have many problems and voters have little confidence in vote counts they produce. He told council the JIPSD was the first elected body in the state to urge replacement of the machines, and the town could become the first municipality to do so.

“I hope you will do something similar and start and statewide trend and get the attention of the state legislature,” Platt said.

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In a press release issued 10/13/2009 Eugene Platt announced that he will be a Green Party candidate for South Carolina State House District 115 in 2010. Platt, the only elected Green in South Carolina, will likely face both a Democratic and Republican candidate in November.

Platt has served for more than a decade on the James Island Public Service District Commission, placing first in an eight candidate race last fall for re-election. Platt was denied a chance to appear on the ballot last year because of a change in interpretation of state law by the state’s Election Commission. That decision was affirmed by a federal judge and has been appealed by the ACLU on behalf of the South Carolina Green Party.

The full text of Platt’s announcement is below the fold. Platt is a member of the South Carolina Green Party steering committee, and has been actively recruiting candidates to run on the Green Party line. District 115 is in the Charleston area.
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In a letter published in the Charleston Post and Courier, Green Party spokesperson Eugene Platt called for an end to plans to extend Interstate 526 onto Johns and James Islands.

Platt, an elected member of the James Island Public Service District Commission, pointed to a resolution against the proposed extension passed unanimously by the Town of James Island Council on April 7 as evidence that the communities most impacted by this proposed road are united in their opposition to the project. The complete text of his letter can be read by clicking on the article headline.
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