BREAKING: McDaniel Supporters Barred From Reviewing Voter Rolls in Three Mississippi Counties

-- They voted twice in the primary, and THAT is a felony! --

It took me some time to track this one down. The applicable statute is Mississippi Code 97-13-35 - Voting; by unqualified person, or at more than one place, or for both parties in same primary.

Any person who shall vote at any election, not being legally qualified, or who shall vote in more than one county, or at more than one place in any county or in any city, town, or village entitled to separate representation, or who shall vote out of the district of his legal domicile, or who shall vote or attempt to vote in the primary election of one party when he shall have voted on the same date in the primary election of another party, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both.

For the careful parser out there who notices the "same date" qualifier, that's covered too. The runoff is deemed to be part of the original primary, and for legal purposes, the primary and runoff are one election, held on the same day.

MS AG Op., Brown (April 7, 1988) 1988 WL 250048

There is, however, a statutory prohibition to "crossover" voting. Crossover voting may be defined as participation in the first primary of one political party and participation in the runoff primary of another party. Several Attorney General's opinions and case law has defined the first and second primary as one election process. The runoff primary has been described as a continuation of the first primary. Therefore, Miss. Code Ann. AS: 97-13-35 (1972), which prohibits participation in more than one primary on the same day, has been interpreted to prohibit crossover voting.

I said this before, these are the people that we're supposed to trust to get to the bottom of the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, the BLM showdown, etc?

Is this thuggery now an indicator of what they will do in Washington?

A legal defense foundation has to step in now and the courts to issue injunctions and preserve documents and allow access.

-PJ

Text of statement by Hinds County Republican Party Chairman Pete Perry - Madison County Journal - Madison County Mississippi, June 27, 2014

"Yesterday afternoon, someone claiming to represent the Mississippi State Tea Party held a press conference in this Courthouse to make some careless accusations about the voting in Hinds County for the Republican nomination for United States Senate. This morning, I'd like to provide some facts in response.
First of all, some background on the election mechanics in Hinds County:
Hinds County has 118 precincts each of which has 3 to 5 poll workers who are hired by the County Republican Executive Committee and are paid $100 for a 14 to 15 hour day. Many of the 500 or so Hinds County citizens who work as poll workers have been working the same ballot boxes for years. They take pride in their work, their involvement with the community, and their participation in the democratic process. I am certain that on June 24th, there were McDaniel supporters, Cochran supporters, and even the rare undecided voter working as poll workers in Hinds County.
I provide this background on the poll workers because of their essential role in this process. When each voter comes to the polling station, the poll workers check the registration books and the voter's identification before providing them a ballot. If there is a challenge to a voter's eligibility by a poll watcher from a campaign, the poll workers rule on their eligibility or provide an affidavit ballot to the voter. After the polls close, at each precinct, the poll workers download the election results, tally the absentee ballots for the precinct, and then return everything to the Courthouse where their results are added to the others.
To help the poll workers navigate the election legalities and the ever- changing technology of the voting machines, we have training classes for the poll workers. For this election cycle, we conducted more than two dozen classes to train these workers. Prior to the June 24th run-off, we had additional classes to address the upcoming runoff election. One of the key subjects of this supplemental training was that for the run-off, nobody that voted in the June 3rd Democrat primary could vote in the June 24th Republican run-off. Additional material was given to all poll workers addressing this specific issue.
To help prevent mistakes, the Republican and Democrat parties switch the poll books for each precinct for a run-off. Since we don't register by political party in Mississippi, the poll books list all voters. The theory of switching the poll books is that if a Republican poll worker is using the book that was used by the Democrats in the first election, then when a voter comes to vote in the Republican run-off, the poll worker can quickly see if the voter's name is checked as having voted in the first Democrat primary.
As I understand it, the complaint by the representative of the Tea Party yesterday was that 'they had found over 800 instances of June 3 voters in the Democrat primary who illegally voted in the June 24 runoff election.'
Instead of making wild accusations which stir up social media with cries of fraud and corruption, it would be much better for all involved D- the voters, the candidates, the 500 poll workers in Hinds County D- if we let facts enter into the conversation. And the facts are that their claims are wildly exaggerated. As a committee, we are still in the process of going through the election results before they can be certified, but this morning we can discuss some of the specific examples that were raised yesterday.
As an example in Precinct 14, the Fondren Presbyterian Church precinct, the numbers cited by the McDaniel campaign yesterday included 192 'illegal votes' -- people that they claimed had voted in the Democrat primary on June 3rd but then voted in the Republican run-off. That is impossible. According to the certified results of the June 3rd Democrat primary, there were only 37 total Democrat primary voters at that particular precinct. I am providing you with a redacted copy of a sample page from the poll books used at that precinct.
A simple look at this page shows what Ms. Overscheld is claiming as illegal votes. This is nothing more than an instance where a poll worker started marking an individual's vote in the June 3rd column, rather than in the June 24th column. At some point the worker realized his or her mistake and corrected it D- crossing out the 'voted' notation in the June 3rd column and moving it to its proper place. That is the correct procedure for the managers -- but the McDaniel campaign is claiming that this is an example of illegal votes.
Ms. Overscheld was aware of this and other similar instances when she made her statement yesterday, but continued with her charade trying to provide known inflated numbers. In fact, when she made her statement yesterday, she had inflated their own numbers to make it appear to be worse than they had actually found. Later that night, the candidate himself again inflated the numbers to now being 'over 1000.' Elections are about specifics, not generalities. We count and account for each and every vote; we do not inflate or deflate numbers for campaign purposes.
We have not gone through every voter accused yesterday by Ms. Oversheld but we will do so before we complete our canvass of all the election matters. I am confident that as we continue to look at the specific cases, this bogus number cited yesterday will be reduced significantly.
Instead of crying fraud or illegality or corruption -- rhetoric that is designated to inflame passions -- it would be helpful if those making wild accusations would consider other possibilities.
For example, one of the 800 plus 'illegal voters' accused yesterday was cast by a lady who attempted to vote in the Pinehaven precinct. She came to vote in the Republican primary on June 24th and the poll worker checked the poll book and saw that she was marked as having voted in the Democrat primary on June 3rd so the poll worker denied her a ballot. One problem though D- she was in the hospital on June 3rd. She had a colonoscopy that day and did not vote. No corruption, no fraud, just a simple human mistake. A clerical error was made by a Democrat poll worker on June 3rd.
Those mistakes happen. And I'm sure that some mistakes happened on Tuesday in the Republican primary. I'm sure that there were mistakes in Hinds County, Jones County and every one of the 82 counties in the State, and that both candidates were affected positively and negatively. That's what happens, when in Hinds County alone, 500 one-day workers -- moreso volunteers than professionals -- process and tally the 25,000 voters on election day.
I am very pleased with how the election went in Hinds County on Tuesday. The more than 500 people involved with running the election operated in a professional manner and helped participate in a record voter turnout. As a lifelong Republican, it is very gratifying to me personally to see so many new voters in the Republican primary not just in Hinds County but across the state."

To anyone interested, here's some data from the Primary election. Percentages for Cochran and McDaniel are only against each other (discounting Dem and Carey votes):

County	Dem Tot	Cochran	McDaniel	Carey	%Coch (H2H)	%McDan (H2H)
Adams	1307	1492	1219	16	55	45
Alcorn	738	1362	1224	15	52.7	47.3
Amite	656	604	984	19	38	62
Attala	752	874	1008	18	46.4	53.6
Benton	306	218	238	6	47.8	52.2
Bolivar	1378	1272	583	10	68.6	31.4
Calhoun	419	782	646	15	54.8	45.2
Carroll	586	722	618	6	53.9	46.1
Chickasaw	891	719	588	12	55	45
Choctaw	342	574	620	17	48.1	51.9
Claiborne	787	161	112	0	59	41
Clarke	638	926	1245	24	42.7	57.3
Clay	1384	1084	616	12	63.8	36.2
Coahoma	1109	611	298	7	67.2	32.8
Copiah	1237	1373	1287	15	51.6	48.4
Covington	597	698	1823	43	27.7	72.3
DeSoto	1219	5174	9078	180	36.3	63.7
Forrest	1463	4316	5265	162	45	55
Franklin	315	508	674	9	43	57
George	317	1233	2220	83	35.7	64.3
Greene	167	418	983	33	29.8	70.2
Grenada	1338	876	943	12	48.2	51.8
Hancock	395	3631	3221	259	53	47
Harrison	2395	13113	9480	985	58	42
Hinds	13834	10928	5621	91	66	34
Holmes	1292	365	257	3	58.7	41.3
Humphreys	675	391	181	0	68.4	31.6
Issaquena	125	92	37	0	71.3	28.7
Itawamba	502	1248	1316	38	48.7	51.3
Jackson	2097	8787	9083	539	49.2	50.8
Jasper	904	639	1654	29	27.9	72.1
Jeff Davis	775	432	660	11	39.6	60.4
Jefferson	812	121	95	3	56	44
Jones	1391	1816	11025	126	14.1	85.9
Kemper	490	414	334	4	55.3	44.7
Lafayette	935	2793	1513	36	64.9	35.1
Lamar	602	4015	5927	241	40.4	59.6
Lauderdale	1365	4929	3867	58	56	44
Lawrence	571	751	795	17	48.6	51.4
Leake	780	886	764	11	53.7	46.3
Lee	1846	5111	3800	89	57.4	42.6
Leflore	1355	1165	383	7	75.3	24.7
Lincoln	845	2428	1996	56	54.9	45.1
Lowndes	1531	3194	2152	43	59.7	40.3
Madison	2433	9093	5678	93	61.6	38.4
Marion	851	1182	2274	56	34.2	65.8
Marshall	1240	859	1223	37	41.3	58.7
Monroe	1232	1802	1618	30	52.7	47.3
Montgomery	777	523	519	12	50.2	49.8
Neshoba	448	1508	1336	29	53	47
Newton	519	1337	1267	22	51.3	48.7
Noxubee	500	336	272	2	55.3	44.7
Oktibbeha	1159	2753	1353	28	67	33
Panola	1369	1179	1100	25	51.7	48.3
Pearl River	514	2140	4618	209	31.7	68.3
Perry	246	697	1188	60	37	63
Pike	1327	1783	1682	41	51.5	48.5
Pontotoc	574	1783	1633	42	52.2	47.8
Prentiss	1286	902	718	13	55.7	44.3
Quitman	577	215	129	5	62.5	37.5
Rankin	1593	12392	12005	259	50.8	49.2
Scott	635	1070	1059	18	50.3	49.7
Sharkey	295	320	86	1	78.8	21.2
Simpson	720	1725	1576	40	52.3	47.7
Smith	370	798	1793	22	30.8	69.2
Stone	201	1259	1412	96	47.1	52.9
Sunflower	1411	771	358	6	68.3	31.7
Tallahatchie	874	452	248	7	64.6	35.4
Tate	587	1021	1617	18	38.7	61.3
Tippah	451	1025	1012	19	50.3	49.7
Tishomingo	521	831	904	27	47.9	52.1
Tunica	260	235	86	3	73.2	26.8
Union	548	1629	1231	30	57	43
Walthall	434	670	710	11	48.6	51.4
Warren	1519	2432	2008	28	54.8	45.2
Washington	1810	1455	606	16	70.6	29.4
Wayne	804	591	2108	59	21.9	78.1
Webster	266	815	758	25	51.8	48.2
Wilkinson	262	159	204	4	43.8	56.2
Winston	686	912	734	13	55.4	44.6
Yalobusha	804	582	547	10	51.6	48.4
Yazoo	773	1172	937	13	55.6	44.4

In most states it would be a felony. Oh well, give them 6 months in jail then.

All of this is because people who are not Republicans CAN vote in Republican primaries. Duh.

For the Excel addicts, here's some numbers from the runoff election. The last two column show the percentage point increase from the primary and the vote total increase from the primary for Cochran:

County	Cochran	McDaniel	Coch%	McDan %	Coch % Inc	Coch Tot Inc
Adams	1917	1485	56.3	43.7	1.3	159
Alcorn	1855	1842	50.2	49.8	-2.5	-125
Amite	680	1262	35	65	-3	-202
Attala	979	1154	45.9	54.1	-0.5	-41
Benton	261	401	39.4	60.6	-8.4	-120
Bolivar	1877	734	71.9	28.1	3.3	454
Calhoun	944	749	55.8	44.2	1	59
Carroll	926	829	52.8	47.2	-1.1	-7
Chickasaw	798	721	52.5	47.5	-2.5	-54
Choctaw	650	641	50.3	49.7	2.3	55
Claiborne	283	108	72.4	27.6	13.4	126
Clarke	936	1518	38.1	61.9	-4.5	-263
Clay	1386	766	64.4	35.6	0.6	152
Coahoma	1050	345	75.3	24.7	8.1	392
Copiah	1760	1419	55.4	44.6	3.7	255
Covington	812	2115	27.7	72.3	0.1	-178
DeSoto	5977	13664	30.4	69.6	-5.9	-3783
Forrest	5345	5574	49	51	3.9	720
Franklin	633	746	45.9	54.1	2.9	53
George	967	2410	28.6	71.4	-7.1	-456
Greene	389	1117	25.8	74.2	-4	-163
Grenada	1254	1270	49.7	50.3	1.5	51
Hancock	3100	3301	48.4	51.6	-4.6	-611
Harrison	14203	10355	57.8	42.2	-0.2	215
Hinds	17949	6964	72	28	6	5678
Holmes	668	296	69.3	30.7	10.6	264
Humphreys	811	214	79.1	20.9	10.8	387
Issaquena	127	50	71.8	28.2	0.4	22
Itawamba	1536	1636	48.4	51.6	-0.3	-32
Jackson	10311	10004	50.8	49.2	1.6	603
Jasper	855	1932	30.7	69.3	2.8	-62
Jeff Davis	546	760	41.8	58.2	2.2	14
Jefferson	321	111	74.3	25.7	18.3	184
Jones	2764	12640	17.9	82.1	3.8	-667
Kemper	486	429	53.1	46.9	-2.2	-23
Lafayette	3926	1935	67	33	2.1	711
Lamar	4450	6391	41	59	0.7	-29
Lauderdale	6163	4763	56.4	43.6	0.4	338
Lawrence	904	940	49	51	0.4	8
Leake	1059	979	52	48	-1.7	-42
Lee	6363	4666	57.7	42.3	0.3	386
Leflore	1541	413	78.9	21.1	3.6	346
Lincoln	3021	2186	58	42	3.1	403
Lowndes	3973	2668	59.8	40.2	0.1	263
Madison	11693	6493	64.3	35.7	2.7	1785
Marion	1333	2725	32.8	67.2	-1.4	-300
Marshall	1029	1938	34.7	65.3	-6.6	-545
Monroe	2260	1922	54	46	1.4	154
Montgomery	586	563	51	49	0.8	19
Neshoba	1900	1605	54.2	45.8	1.2	123
Newton	1453	1578	47.9	52.1	-3.4	-195
Noxubee	401	302	57	43	1.8	35
Oktibbeha	3704	1516	71	29	3.9	788
Panola	1345	1730	43.7	56.3	-8	-464
Pearl River	2136	5758	27.1	72.9	-4.6	-1144
Perry	667	1385	32.5	67.5	-4.5	-227
Pike	2336	2046	53.3	46.7	1.9	189
Pontotoc	2207	1895	53.8	46.2	1.6	162
Prentiss	1080	904	54.4	45.6	-1.2	-8
Quitman	326	173	65.3	34.7	2.8	67
Rankin	14902	13374	52.7	47.3	1.9	1141
Scott	1289	1358	48.7	51.3	-1.6	-80
Sharkey	557	115	82.9	17.1	4.1	208
Simpson	1927	1688	53.3	46.7	1	90
Smith	901	1997	31.1	68.9	0.3	-101
Stone	1251	1509	45.3	54.7	-1.8	-105
Sunflower	1186	428	73.5	26.5	5.2	345
Tallahatchie	588	330	64.1	35.9	-0.5	54
Tate	1185	2252	34.5	65.5	-4.2	-471
Tippah	1243	1518	45	55	-5.3	-288
Tishomingo	1042	1101	48.6	51.4	0.7	14
Tunica	363	121	75	25	1.8	93
Union	2043	1618	55.8	44.2	-1.2	27
Walthall	815	935	46.6	53.4	-2	-80
Warren	3128	2197	58.7	41.3	4	507
Washington	2345	844	73.5	26.5	2.9	652
Wayne	766	2422	24	76	2.1	-139
Webster	870	923	48.5	51.5	-3.3	-110
Wilkinson	212	294	41.9	58.1	-1.9	-37
Winston	1263	1012	55.5	44.5	0.1	73
Yalobusha	719	659	52.2	47.8	0.6	25
Yazoo	1701	1084	61.1	38.9	5.5	382

So he can just claim a mistake and that ends it...............

I am somewhat skeptical, as the picture yesterday clearly shoved REPUBLICAN voters who voted in a Republican primary, not Dems as claimed.

But, if true, it needs pursued. Disturbing they won’t allow inspection.

I hope McDaniel has the guts to fight this to the bitter end.

Neither the establishment Democrats or Republicans ever want to turn over the election-fraud rocks, because they both have their fingerprints on them.

The TEA party ain't the establishment. Let loose the election-fraud rocks of war. Let Democrats and Republicans alike go to jail.

"As God is my witness I will never vote for an establishment Republican again."?

I won't say that, because Ted Cruz, Allen West, or Trey Gowdy might run as an R. But I will only vote for them, or someone just like them---in other words, solid, true conservatives. Anyone else? Nope, I'm done.

For the six counties showing the greatest percentage point gain for Cochran, Democrat voters made up at least 45% of the primary totals in each county:

County	Dem % (Tot Primary)	Coch % Inc	Coch Tot Inc
Jefferson	78.8	18.3	184
Claiborne	74.2	13.4	126
Humphreys	54.1	10.8	387
Holmes	67.4	10.6	264
Coahoma	54.8	8.1	392
Hinds	45.4	6	5678

These six counties alone produced a 7,000-vote gain for Cochran in the run-off. These six counties showed a total of 18,500 Democrat votes in the earlier primary.

Dang, I need to pay closer attention. You said ESTABLISHMENT Republican.

*never mind*

The counties to go after here are Hinds, Madison, Oktibbeha, Humphreys, and Holmes. Those five counties should show plenty of illegal Democrat re-votes.

Now the lawyers know where to look!

so can the candidate himself see all the records ???

but the fault lies with the poll workers,
and probably not with the uninformed voters.
______________________________________

its still illegal..

those votes should be disqualified,

The RNC will make sure this vote fraud is overlooked and covered up. Gotta keep their boy Thad in office.

That’s O.K.

I like all of them. They are not Establishment, i.e Chris Christie, “Mittens” Romney, any Bushes living or yet to be born, etc.