Voter Action, a non-profit, non-partisan voting integrity group, is urging Holder to seize the electronic voting equipment before critical data from that election is erased during usage in the Republican run-off.

Voter Action Legal Director John C. Bonifaz, in a letter to Holder, wrote, "there is a substantial disparity between the results of the absentee vote count and the primary day vote count. That disparity may be attributable to the use by voters of paperless touchscreen voting machines on primary day, whereas most absentee voters marked their votes on paper ballots that were thereafter tabulated by optical scanner equipment."

Despite disparities and statewide reports of lost votes, broken equipment and missing names on the ballot, the South Carolina Democratic Party voted against former state legislator and Circuit Court Judge Vic Rawl's calls for a new primary election against opponent Alvin Greene. Greene, an unemployed Army veteran defeated Rawls with 59% of the vote without campaigning or fundraising. Greene has also refused to disclose how he was able to come up with the $10,000 filing fee to run for office.