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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BTTT!
Excellent post!
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Denying by age is unconstitutional.
I hope the GOPe is proud of their corrupt actions.
It will cost the GOP that seat.
Not if the voter already voted in the Democrat primary.
Write in McDaniel.
Hey, that’s OK — Preibus says the Republicans are going to flip 14 Democrat seats.
Conservatives should vote for the Democrat in the General
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Trust me; if Thad Cochran gets to keep the nomination he stole on June 24th, thousands of Conservatives will do just that. (Vote for the Dem candidate.) Some will just skip the Senate Race and vote in the down-ballot races. And many of them will just stay home on Nov. 4th.
No. Write in or vote libertarian, perhaps. Or skip that office. But no votes for Dhims.
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I understand your sentiments; been there. I have not voted for a Democrat since I was young and stupid and voted for Jimmah Cawter in 1976. But, I will say this. If I lived in MS, I could vote for the Dem Senate candidate, Travis Childers. He is against same-sex marriage. He is Pro-Life and Pro-Second Amendment. He is an “old South” Democrat. I’d vote for him and tell Haley Barbour, Mitch McConnell and Michael Bloomberg to kiss my butt on both sides.
They risk losing that seat to the DEM. Its decision time for the GOPe.
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They don’t shive a git. The GOPe would rather a Dem win an election rather than a Tea Party-style Conservative.
My guess is that they’re gonna say that it’s a done deal, and they won’t take it up.
Could be wrong, but I doubt it.
I read the MS law, which states specifically that the primary is open, but a person shall not vote in the primary for a candidate of the other party if the voter will not vote for the same person in the general election.
It appears to be a ridiculous law; however, if McDaniel’s people have affidavits from democrat voters swearing that they are not willing to vote for Cochran in the general, then it’s not just statistics, but hard evidence of law-breaking.
What does the law say is to be done with those votes? Are they declared null and void? That would be something concrete.
I suspect Cochran stole the election, but Democrats voting for a candidate in the primary whom they’ll vote against in the general is not illegal. Having voted Democrat in the primary and then in the Republican runoff is, as I understand it, illegal. Trying to make the case with just those who say they’ll vote Democrat in the general seems to suggest they don’t have an actual case within the constraints of the laws.
Oh, does their law require that? I didn’t realize. That’s something else again. Interesting.
Better watch what you wish for: Chris McDaniel: Not Sure I Can Vote For Cochran in November
Affidavits of what? More people swearing they voted for him than the number of votes he got in the official election numbers?
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From what I’ve previously read, MS State laws don’t allow a vote for one party in a primary to cross-over and vote for the other party in the general election. ....These people said they voted for a (weak) GOP candidate in the primary and that they would vote Dem in the general.
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