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Judge tosses McDaniel lawsuit over Cochran win
News Channel 3 Memphis ^ | August 29, 2014 | George Brown

Posted on 08/29/2014 4:35:31 PM PDT by upbeat5

JACKSON, Miss. — Special Judge Hollis McGehee has dismissed an election challenge filed by Chris McDaniel according to WDAM-TV.

The decision ends a battle between the two since McDaniel’s June special election loss.

Cochran’s attorneys asserted McDaniel should have filed his challenge within 20 days but waited until August 4.

McDaniel alleged voter fraud in the election.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: chrismcdaniel; cochran; elections; hollismcgehee; mcdaniel; mississippi; thadcochran
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1 posted on 08/29/2014 4:35:32 PM PDT by upbeat5
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To: upbeat5

Ditch Mitch too.


2 posted on 08/29/2014 4:38:44 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: upbeat5

If I were a Tea Partier in Mississippi, I could never vote for someone who called me a Klansman. I would write in Mickey Mouse.


3 posted on 08/29/2014 4:38:53 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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4 posted on 08/29/2014 4:47:45 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Fiji Hill

Well, well, if I lived in MS, I’d dang sure be voting for the RAT. It wouldn’t matter if I had to hold my nose, because that’s exactly what I’d have to do to vote for the Cockroach.


5 posted on 08/29/2014 4:57:19 PM PDT by Catsrus (A)
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To: upbeat5

Is the judge a relative of Boss Hog Barbour, too? Cochran’s daughter-in-law, who kept the poll books, wouldn’t turn them over, so that may have been why he was late in filing the suit. I hope Cochran loses big. That senile old goat doesn’t deserve his hefty salary for stealing the election with Black Democrat help.


6 posted on 08/29/2014 5:04:13 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: upbeat5
the fix, was in..

7 posted on 08/29/2014 5:05:48 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: Catsrus
Turns out the Dem is pro-life and pro-gun, I understand.

That's not a bad thing.

/johnny

8 posted on 08/29/2014 5:12:42 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: upbeat5

This is a state court decision. Wasn’t there a filing in Federal court also??


9 posted on 08/29/2014 5:13:32 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Fiji Hill

It’s all done to get Barbour’s progeny in. Without Cochran being the stand-in, the Prince Barbour would have had a hard time in the primary.

Republican voters tend to not like legacies in and of themselves. The Establishment loves them though.


10 posted on 08/29/2014 5:22:45 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: CedarDave
This is a state court decision. Wasn’t there a filing in Federal court also??

Not by McDaniel. The federal lawsuit was brought by True the Vote, and they are asking only for access to the poll records, not to overturn the election results, so the federal judge slow-tracked their case.

11 posted on 08/29/2014 5:30:59 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: upbeat5

If this is final, I call on all conservatives in the state to write in McDaniel during the election. Yes it will cause the Dem to win and yes it will not succeed in getting McDaniel into office.

I WILL show the GOPe why they lost and by what margin.


13 posted on 08/29/2014 5:45:14 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: upbeat5

An earlier thread if anyone is interested in reading the comments thereon:

MS judge throws out Chris McDaniel’s lawsuit against election result,
says he missed deadline

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198546/posts

Judge Hollis McGehee agreed with the Cochran campaign’s contention that under a 1959
state Supreme Court ruling, there is a 20-day deadline to file an election challenge.
By contrast, McDaniel filed his challenge 41 days after after the June 24 Republican
primary runoff, which Cochran won by about 7,000 votes.
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14 posted on 08/29/2014 6:03:13 PM PDT by deport
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To: taxcontrol

Does anything ever go right for the good guys? I cannot remember the last time we won a big one. You know, a real game changer. On any front-—Immigration, Obamacare, terrorism, you name it, the bad guys always win. And even when they appear to have lost, they always pull something outta their asses to save their asses. And they are so brazen and unapologetic about it. We simply do not have the weapons or the will to carry the fight at their level. Conservatives are just so ill-equipped and limp-wristed. It’s so f*****g demoralizing.


15 posted on 08/29/2014 6:09:25 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: upbeat5

I kept wondering why McDaniel was taking so long to file an appeal. He should have followed the 20-day limit even if he didn’t have all the data that he needed.


16 posted on 08/29/2014 6:11:22 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: huckfillary

To answer your question, all I can think of is the failure of liberal Howard Henry Baker, Jr.,’s illegal 2.5 year extension in 1979 to get ratification for the popular ERA. But even then feminists still got ERA in practicality just not in that form.


17 posted on 08/29/2014 6:13:09 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: taxcontrol

McDaniel write-in votes won’t be tabulated no matter how many there are; one must be an official write-in candidate in MS (and TX too for that matter).


18 posted on 08/29/2014 6:14:22 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Bogey78O
Republican voters tend to not like legacies in and of themselves

Where did you get this idea? You muist have missed that 70 percent of TX Republican primary voters n March 4 voted to jump start the career of George P. Bush, a bigger margin than John Cornball received.

19 posted on 08/29/2014 6:16:40 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Fiji Hill

The only write-in votes tabulated are for “official” write-in candidates.


20 posted on 08/29/2014 6:18:02 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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