Posted on 08/04/2014 2:00:31 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
The tea party-backed lawmaker defeated by U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in Mississippi's Republican primary said Monday that he has formally challenged the election's outcome with the state GOP.
State Sen. Chris McDaniel filed the challenge with the Mississippi GOP state executive committee over Cochran's June 24 runoff victory, McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner said during a news conference.
McDaniel will have to prove there were enough illegally cast votes to change the outcome or that the election was so sloppily handled its result is in doubt.
Mississippi voters don't register by party, but state law makes so-called crossover voting — casting a ballot in one party's primary and another party's runoff in the same cycle — a misdemeanor. Tyner said the campaign had found 3,500 instances of crossover votes, along with the 9,500 "irregular votes" and 2,275 "improperly cast" absentee ballots. It was not immediately clear what made the votes irregular, or how the absentee ballots may have been improperly cast.
Certified results show Cochran won by 7,667 votes, or 51 percent.
"They asked us to put up or shut up, and here we are with the evidence," McDaniel said.
McDaniel has called the June 24 runoff a "sham" and excoriated Cochran for seeking votes from "liberal Democrats." While McDaniel stops short of mentioning race, Mississippi is a state where Democrat is often synonymous with black. Cochran says there's nothing wrong with seeking support from Democrats and independents — it's something he's done for decades.
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McDaniel…an embarassment to the state? did i understand that correctly?
Mike
Oh, dear, unless McDaniel has an airtight case, he’s going to be tagged a sore loser, which can be electorally fatal. I don’t fault conservatives for being irked about the Cochran campaign’s tactics though. I just don’t see conservatives gaining anything of consequence from it.
Being right is more important than winning an individual race any day.
Karl?
A sore loser is someone who lost a race fair and square and bitches about it. This was blatant theft and fraud. Blatant.
Fixed it for you.
He filed the complaint with the Mississippi GOP state executive committee. Who's supporters do you think it's stocked with? McDaniel? Or Cochran?
So how long does the committee have before they have to rule? Can they stretch it out into November?
Ten days, then a lawsuit, in my understanding.
I don’t consider him a sore loser. I consider him a hero in his fight to prove voter fraud and corruption. About time someone had the gonads to do so.
He can have all the evidence on his side, but it won’t mean a thing to the people of MS and their “leaders.”
XACTLY!
Mike
My understanding is that a name is recorded in the party book when a person votes. If that name appears in the book, then that person is not to vote in the other party’s election.
My understandingis that the problem here is that many of the names in the party book had a line through them. The explanation? “We made a mistake. They didn’t really vote in the democrat primary.”
These same names then appear in the republican party primary book.
Surely this isn’t the process they actually use, but during the initial search for illegal votes, this was reported by a couple of writers.
All I have to do is put a line through a name.
It’s one thing to defend Cochran, it’s a whole different matter to malign a man who would fit right in at FreeRepublic as a true blue red blooded American standing for our constitution against a man who stands for the RINO establishment bent on keeping Obama from being brought to justice.
Why do you dislike freeper type people so much?
quite honestly it looks like Cochrane won’t even live another 6 years. So he’s running for who? Barber?
The MS State GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Haley Barbour Family. This has about as much chance as Ice in Hell.
State Republican Executive Committee is a kangaroo court.
Thanks, Lurking, I read that. It does not look good for Chris.
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