Remember what I said on the other thread about how Cochran will claim the envelopes of money were for GOTV workers?
Back to the Reverend. He and anyone he authorized to hand out money for votes would be considered GOTV workers. So to cover their tails, all Cochran and Staff have to do is deny that they did anything other than pay GOTV workers. Their campaign cash-out expenses will show only the amounts paid to GOTV workers. The money that went to individual voters will not show up anywhere. That money came from other people/accounts.That's what he's saying now:
Russell says they're for campaign workers and are in line with the law.Exactly what I said they'd say. Punks. They're not fooling anyone."It's $25 dollars a shift and it's paid in an envelope," Russell said. "The reason that we would need the name and address is so that we can report all of our disbursements to the FEC."
This cancel by doubt will be one of their tactics.“We don’t have to prove that we have 7,000 [invalid] votes…. all there needs to be is enough doubt about the election, and we’re confident about that,” he said.
That “cancel by doubt” strategy gives the McDaniel campaign an incentive to collect evidence about possible vote-buying and other potentially unethical behavior by Cochran’s campaign.
So far, there are many reports about shady outreach to Democratic voters supposedly undertaken by Cochran and his allies, particularly done by relatives of former Gov. Haley Barbour.
For example, The Daily Caller reported that Henry Barbour, the head of the Mississippi Conservatives PAC and the nephew of Haley Barbour, paid Democratic operative Mitzi Bickers “to make paid calls to potential Cochran supporters.” Those calls may have spurred many loyal Democrats to cast invalid votes.
In the search for improper votes, GOP officials who are affiliated with Cochran’s campaign are trying to block McDaniel’s search for invalidated votes that are recorded in the poll books, Fritsch said.
“They’re stalling in at least half of the counties across the state,” he said.
Some are “asking for large fees, and throwing up every roadblock you can imagine to stop us from seeing the poll books,” Fristch stated.
That resistance “tells us they don’t want us to see the poll books,” he added.
I believe it is obstruction of justice for the GOPe and the dems to keep the poll books from McDaniel's people.
The republican party is really showing their ass (ironic isn't it that the dems' symbol is an ass...) and even with the MSN playing rip van winkle voters are going to see how corrupt the GOP is, and that they will use fraud and law breaking to get their way to counter those that believe in our Constitutional Republic.
There is more at the link if you want to wade through faux Conservative Tucker's site full of popups, ads and ads disguised as "news" stories.