Posted on 08/04/2014 2:41:52 PM PDT by cotton1706
Six weeks after the primary runoff election, Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel is launching his formal legal challenge of the election results, saying the evidence is so conclusive that he will be calling for courts to recognize him as the true victor of the race rather than calling for a new election.
“Chris McDaniel clearly, clearly won the Republican vote in the runoff,” McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner said at a Monday press conference. “I say that very assuredly because that’s what the mathematics show. It’s not what I’m arguing. After the election, we did some post-election polling. We determined that of the Democrats that did cross over, 71 percent of them admitted they will not support the Republican in the general election. When you take those polling numbers and you go in and do the mathematical regressions, you can see that Chris McDaniel clearly won the runoff by 25,000 votes.”
“The short answer is we’re not asking for a new election,” Tyner continued. “We’re simply asking that the Republican Party recognize the person who won the runoff election.”
The campaign of incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), who was certified by the Mississippi Republican Party as having won the runoff by 7,667 votes on July 7, fired back, saying McDaniel had “made repeated and baseless allegations of fraud and misconduct” since the election.
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Agreed. Winning the GOP vote should win you the nomination. But that is not the law in Mississippi. Unfortunately. McDaniel is finished.
Yes, let’s keep Mitch McConnell as Democrat with an (R) behind his name.
Democrats have the virtue of being honestly leftist.
I’m not a lawyer, but the move to put this in front of the state GOP Executive Committee is interesting. It forces the Mississippi GOP to either run McDaniel out of town and tell him to go pound sand or to admit what he has is valid. If it’s the former, he goes to court. If it becomes and actual trial, it doesn’t seem like they can withhold the registries because that’s part of the discovery - is it not? If there is a law binding in the state that Democrats cannot vote in both their primaries and in Republican primaries, then the registries would be evidence to prove the case either way, so it seems they would have to allow it only because there is a law in in the state barring crossover voting. If the GOP Executive Committee sides with McDaniel in that, yes, illegal crossover voting happened, then they admit their certified winner is a certified loser.
I wonder what face saving, no statement the Mississippi GOP Executive Committee will give when McDaniel’s case appears in front of them? :)
I hope he takes Thad down with him then.
Well, then, it looks like he has the beginnings of a case.
I think he is putting them on notice, fix this or you loose the seat as many of his supporters will not vote for someone who needs a medical evaluation as to if he is truly mentally fit to hold the seat.
I don’t agree that he is finished. Their law requries that a person voting in the Republican primary vote for that prson in the general - with their sworn affadavits - they have the leverage they need to go to court and win. Such pessimism on this forum - all from those who apparently don’t understand the election laws in MS. I’m wondering if the GOP wants this black mark on their candidate going into the general - meaning Cochran of course. They risk losing that seat to the DEM. Its decision time for the GOPe.
My Senator was involved in this incident of election fraud. I won’t vote dem but I won’t vote back-stabber either.
I don’t agree that he is finished. Their law requries that a person voting in the Republican primary vote for that prson in the general - with their sworn affadavits - they have the leverage they need to go to court and win. Such pessimism on this forum - all from those who apparently don’t understand the election laws in MS. I’m wondering if the GOP wants this black mark on their candidate going into the general - meaning Cochran of course. They risk losing that seat to the DEM. Its decision time for the GOPe.
Yes, let’s keep Mitch McConnell as Democrat with an (R) behind his name.
If you’re gonna gripe about “throwing votes away” you’d best start by pointing fingers at the GOPe.
Chris Run as a write in candidate...
I have no doubt that more actual Republicans (and certainly more conservatives) voted for McDaniel than for Cochran. But going into a court and asking the judge to overturn a certified election result based on post-election polling and mathematical regressions?!?! Never gonna happen.
They were denied access to the majority of the voter books they needed to prove their case outright.
That’s not a state law. Whether a primary is open or closed is at the discretion of the Party. However, the state law does prohibit voting in multiple primaries.
The amount of redaction allows the books to be altered so much as to make the viewing of them worthless.
But wouldn’t discovery take care of that issue? they’d have to open up the books..
Mississippi ping
2013 Mississippi Code
Title 23 - ELECTIONS
Chapter 15 - MISSISSIPPI ELECTION CODE
Article 17 - CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
B AFFIDAVIT BALLOTS AND CHALLENGED BALLOTS
§ 23-15-575 - Participation in primary election
Universal Citation: MS Code § 23-15-575 (2013)
No person shall be eligible to participate in any primary election unless he intends
to support the nominations made in the primary in which he participates.
http://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/2013/title-23/chapter-15/article-17/b/section-23-15-575/
No. The Mississippi courts ruled that only redacted books may be used.
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