Posted on 06/27/2014 2:13:39 PM PDT by Linda Frances
When asked how Perry could have succeeded in not switching the books—since he and other Democrats refused to cooperate with his request on the grounds that they believed it was illegal—McInnis replied that he worked with Sen. Cochran’s sister-in-law—the election commissioner in Hinds County—to get the job done. “Connie Cochran is the election commissioner,” McInnis said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“In the state of Mississippi, you have to take steps to prevent crossover voting,” McInnis said. “If you voted Democrat in the Democratic primary, you can’t vote in the Republican runoff. The way we protect that is we switch the poll books. Pete Perry and Connie Cochran, who’s the chair of the election commission, called us and asked us not to switch the books—which is a clear violation of the law.”
McInnis told Breitbart News he personally witnessed at least one Hinds County precinct—Precinct 16—where the books had not been switched during the runoff day. “I went out to a precinct to make sure the laws were being followed, and I got there at about 4 o’clock p.m.,” McInnis said. “They had not switched the books, under the influence of the young Republican and Democratic workers there. I demanded that they switch these books immediately. The Democratic poll manager there switched the books at 4 o’clock that evening.”
McInnis said he thinks Perry engaged in this practice throughout the entire county, but he can’t be sure because Democrats were only allowed inside 15 of the county’s 109 precincts on election day. Two Democrat candidates for the U.S. House third congressional district in Mississippi headed to a runoff, and while Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) represents most of Hinds County, the third congressional district has 15 precincts inside Hinds County.
“I think this was county-wide, but we only had 15 precincts because we only had a small runoff in a very small part of the county; we only had 15 precincts in the eastern part of the county,” McInnis said. “The rest of the county had only the Republican runoff, so we had no authority to go to Republican polling places and do anything about it. But in the places we could, we did—because we did not want to be accused of anything with the Republican Party.”
When asked how Perry could have succeeded in not switching the books—since he and other Democrats refused to cooperate with his request on the grounds that they believed it was illegal—McInnis replied that he worked with Sen. Cochran’s sister-in-law—the election commissioner in Hinds County—to get the job done. “Connie Cochran is the election commissioner,” McInnis said.
“I can’t tell you if he did this at all the precincts, but I can tell you at the precincts I went to, they didn’t switch the books. I know one woman at one precinct where she had voted in the Democratic primary, but she also was allowed to vote in the Republican runoff. It happened at more than one precinct.”
McInnis and his fellow Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee member, Chairwoman Jacqueline Amos-Norris, provided Breitbart News with email evidence that Perry and Connie Cochran were trying to not “switch the books” on runoff day. “Connie, unless I send you something in writing, it does not exist,” Norris wrote to Connie Cochran in the email dated June 18, six days before the runoff. “Claude informed me of what Pete said to you about the Poll Books and that’s not true and not legal. If I need to come down, please let me know.”
What supposedly happened, according to McInnis and Norris, is that Perry told Connie Cochran that McInnis agreed to not switch the books. McInnis and Norris both said that isn’t and wasn’t true, which was why Norris sent that email to Connie Cochran to inform her that it was not true.
“She stated that she told him it wasn’t going to happen, and that was the end of it,” Norris told Breitbart News.
Before this email exchange and this interview with McInnis was published, Perry told local news outlet MS News Now that he did switch the books. “It’s the easiest way for a poll worker to be able to look and see,” explained Perry. “Instead of printing out a list that you’ve got to work from the list, when I look up your name I can look right there and tell if you voted in the Democratic primary.”
In his statement, Perry reiterated that Hinds County had switched the poll books:
To help prevent mistakes, the Republican and Democrat parties switch the poll books for each precinct for a run-off. Since we don’t register by political party in Mississippi, the poll books list all voters. The theory of switching the poll books is that if a Republican poll worker is using the book that was used by the Democrats in the first election, then when a voter comes to vote in the Republican run-off, the poll worker can quickly see if the voter’s name is checked as having voted in the first Democrat primary. .....
Between democrat “activists” and the flood of illegals, our jails should be bursting at the seams...should be.
Corruption. It’s a family tradition.
So what is the latest tactic to remedy this? My outrage is nearing the postal boundary.
Mine did yesterday and earlier today, it’s de-escalated since, but breaking news may trip it again.
One thing that hasn’t and won’t change-I will cut my arm off before I mark a ballot for Thad Cochran now. I’m a conservative, and only a Republican insomuch as they are conservatives. They aren’t anymore. I’m starting to wonder of they’re deliberately trying to shake off conservatives so as to get their piece of the immigrant (legal or otherwise) vote.
The big news was in the middle of the article. If you just read the first few paragraphs you’d miss the big news. His editor should have caught that.
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It’s incredible news. The accusations in the article by Hinds County, MS Democrat Party officials against Pete Perry are nothing short of jaw-dropping. They provided e-mail evidence to back up some of it.
I tried to get someone else to post this. I’m put out the info on another thread and did a terrible job. Please I’m having problem with my computer. Do I sound like democrats? I’m not lying.
bttt wow!
“I’m a conservative, and only a Republican insomuch as they are conservatives. They aren’t anymore.”
They were never conservatives! In Miss they ran as republicans and then voted and acted like DemonRats to provide benefits to the Blacks. No different than the old guard DemonRats. Now they are RepubRats! Just to keep their position. Miss. has a history of voting for thoese who bring home the Bacon!
What is meant by “switching the books”?
Southern blacks voted for lots of dixiecrats because they gave them goodies.
Cole said if McDaniel finds at least 6,700 Democrats who voted in the Democrat primary three weeks ago and the GOP runoff on Tuesday, a Mississippi court could actually demand a new election.
"You don't have to prove who they voted for," Cole said. "You just have to prove there were that many ineligible ballots. That puts the intent of the voting public in doubt, and that's the path by which a court would order a new election.”
Good news. It ain't over.
Cute picture.
What’s your point?
During each primary every voter is recorded as taking either a Republican or Dem ballot. The info is kept in election books. During a run-off, a new set of books has to be kept, or it’s impossible to compare the original books with the second election. I.e.: unless you switch to a new set of books, you don’t have a valid record of both the original and the subsequent election.
HOLY COW!McInnis’ accusation is huge. ARREST CONNIE CICHRAN NOW!
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