Miss. GOP refuses to hear challenge to Cochran win

AP ^ | 8/6/2014 | JEFF AMY

[markomalley]

Mississippi's state Republican Party is refusing to hear challenger Chris McDaniel's effort to overturn his June 24 GOP runoff loss to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. The party says McDaniel would do better taking his challenge to court.

In a Wednesday letter to McDaniel's lawyer, state Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef said a court is needed to ensure a "prudent" review of the challenge.

[xzins]

Actually, there is an excuse.

I wrote it down in the above post.

1. We cannot support voter fraud determining an election. That’s a fact.

2. An opinion: Better to have a tidal change election that brings about a conservative president, republican house and senate, than to have 2 house of Congress for 2 years. During that 2 years the ills of the nation will be diverted around the necks of the republicans and give the democrat opponent something to run on rather than simply being stuck with the legacy of Obama and his idiot Senate. After all, isn’t that what everyone is excited about running again this fall?

So, I do have an excuse for what I say. I’ve explained it. You’re free to disagree with it, but you can’t really say I haven’t offered an excuse for the loss that would result if everyone voted against Cochran or refused to vote for him...as they SHOULD.

[WKB]

Mississippi ping

[Joe Boucher]

The GOP is NO better than is the democrat party.
Both are slime.

[DoodleDawg]

Well there’s a surprise. </sarcasm>

[randita]

You can never be certain of the future, especially in politics. Who ever saw Barack Obama coming, yet he burst on the scene and grabbed the Rat nomination from Hillary, the one who was thought to be a shoo in. Another Obama could come along and history could repeat itself.

But you can be certain of the present and this is the best year in a long time that the GOP has to pick off a lot of vulnerable Rats in GOP leaning states.

At present, Obama EVEN with only one house of Congress is taking us right down the tubes. Heaven forbid a conservative justice on the SCOTUS retires or passes away with Obama and Reid in charge. The complexion of the court could be changed for decades.

I’ve never understand the thinking that you can win in the long run by losing now. In bare knuckled politics, you have to take your victories whenever you can get them. There are no certainties that you’ll have another chance.

I mean, who in their right mind thought Obama would be reelected with the state of the economy and the shambles he made of foreign policy? Yet, there he is.

[combat_boots]

0bama stole 2012. I honestly believe that.

I also think he knows he did.

[duffee]

He will ask for a new election, I’m sure most knew what the MsGop would do but I believe approaching them first was a matter of protocol. This could be looked at an attempt at re-conciliation before going to court.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Does McDaniel now need to wait the ten days, or does the State GOP’s decision collapse the time period?

He can now go straight to court. And he should file ASAP, or Cochran's lawyers will accuse him of "laches" (excessive delay) and say it's too late to change the ballots for November.

[Lurking Libertarian]

He will ask for a new election, I’m sure most knew what the MsGop would do but I believe approaching them first was a matter of protocol.

In his appeal to the party, McDaniel didn't ask for a new election, he asked to be declared the primary winner outright. I'm not sure if he can now ask the court for a new election, or if he is stuck with his request to be declared the nominee. If the latter, I think this was a tactical mistake; I can imagine a judge saying "there are enough suspicious votes to order a new election, but you didn't ask for that, and the evidence is not clear-cut enough to say you definitely won."

[Praxeologue]

He can now go straight to court. And he should file ASAP, or Cochran's lawyers will accuse him of "laches" (excessive delay) and say it's too late to change the ballots for November.

But McDaniel won't have the benefit, if any, of a Federal Court decision and of the pollbooks from the remaining contested counties, for his action in Circuit Court, which as you say must be filed ASAP. It's a Catch 22.

[Lurking Libertarian]

But McDaniel won't have the benefit, if any, of a Federal Court decision and of the pollbooks from the remaining contested counties, for his action in Circuit Court, which as you say must be filed ASAP. It's a Catch 22.

McDaniel never joined True the Vote's federal lawsuit so, legally, he has no right to complain about not having the benefits of that case. And McDaniel got the pollbooks, albeit in the redacted form ordered by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

[Praxeologue]

McDaniel got the pollbooks, albeit in the redacted form

Did the 3,500 cross votes that the McDaniel campaign referred to include the 'redacted' pollbooks? Do the redacted pollbooks provide sufficient evidence of cross votes?

[Lurking Libertarian]

Did the 3,500 cross votes that the McDaniel campaign referred to include the 'redacted' pollbooks?

Yes, he found those in the redacted pollbooks.

Do the redacted pollbooks provide sufficient evidence of cross votes?

The only things redacted were the voters' Dates of Birth and Social Security Numbers. McDaniel's objection was not to what was being redacted, but that he had to wait, and pay, for the redactions.