“In the state of Mississippi, you have to take steps to prevent crossover voting,” McInnis said. “If you voted Democrat in the Democratic primary, you can’t vote in the Republican runoff. The way we protect that is we switch the poll books. Pete Perry and Connie Cochran, who’s the chair of the election commission, called us and asked us not to switch the books—which is a clear violation of the law.”
McInnis told Breitbart News he personally witnessed at least one Hinds County precinct—Precinct 16—where the books had not been switched during the runoff day. “I went out to a precinct to make sure the laws were being followed, and I got there at about 4 o’clock p.m.,” McInnis said. “They had not switched the books, under the influence of the young Republican and Democratic workers there. I demanded that they switch these books immediately. The Democratic poll manager there switched the books at 4 o’clock that evening.”
McInnis said he thinks Perry engaged in this practice throughout the entire county, but he can’t be sure because Democrats were only allowed inside 15 of the county’s 109 precincts on election day. Two Democrat candidates for the U.S. House third congressional district in Mississippi headed to a runoff, and while Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) represents most of Hinds County, the third congressional district has 15 precincts inside Hinds County.
“I think this was county-wide, but we only had 15 precincts because we only had a small runoff in a very small part of the county; we only had 15 precincts in the eastern part of the county,” McInnis said. “The rest of the county had only the Republican runoff, so we had no authority to go to Republican polling places and do anything about it. But in the places we could, we did—because we did not want to be accused of anything with the Republican Party.”
When asked how Perry could have succeeded in not switching the books—since he and other Democrats refused to cooperate with his request on the grounds that they believed it was illegal—McInnis replied that he worked with Sen. Cochran’s sister-in-law—the election commissioner in Hinds County—to get the job done. “Connie Cochran is the election commissioner,” McInnis said.
“I can’t tell you if he did this at all the precincts, but I can tell you at the precincts I went to, they didn’t switch the books. I know one woman at one precinct where she had voted in the Democratic primary, but she also was allowed to vote in the Republican runoff. It happened at more than one precinct.”
McInnis and his fellow Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee member, Chairwoman Jacqueline Amos-Norris, provided Breitbart News with email evidence that Perry and Connie Cochran were trying to not “switch the books” on runoff day. “Connie, unless I send you something in writing, it does not exist,” Norris wrote to Connie Cochran in the email dated June 18, six days before the runoff. “Claude informed me of what Pete said to you about the Poll Books and that’s not true and not legal. If I need to come down, please let me know.”
What supposedly happened, according to McInnis and Norris, is that Perry told Connie Cochran that McInnis agreed to not switch the books. McInnis and Norris both said that isn’t and wasn’t true, which was why Norris sent that email to Connie Cochran to inform her that it was not true.
“She stated that she told him it wasn’t going to happen, and that was the end of it,” Norris told Breitbart News.
Before this email exchange and this interview with McInnis was published, Perry told local news outlet MS News Now that he did switch the books. “It’s the easiest way for a poll worker to be able to look and see,” explained Perry. “Instead of printing out a list that you’ve got to work from the list, when I look up your name I can look right there and tell if you voted in the Democratic primary.”
In his statement, Perry reiterated that Hinds County had switched the poll books:
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. .....
Between democrat “activists” and the flood of illegals, our jails should be bursting at the seams...should be.
Corruption. It’s a family tradition.
Here’s my problem with this. Mississippi uses the electronic ballot. So even if there are ten thousand instances of voter fraud, how are we to know or assume that ALL of them voted for Cochran? There is no way to tie a person to a vote. What happens next? I have no doubt that there was incredible voter fraud, and that it is likely enough to push McDaniel over the top. However, how is this going to proceed, given that this will end up in a court of law?
This is becoming another missing e-mail scandal. Double Voting?,What Double Voting?,sorry,but we lost at least 10,000 ballots.
Perry counters by saying many of the alleged illegitimate votes aren't from people who wrongly voted in the runoff, but only appear to have done so. In his statement, he explained further, referring to one specific precinct: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 – 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."We know there are errors that happened that day, and the poll workers out there corrected it," Perry said. "And they're just trying to make up numbers to make it look a lot better than it is."
Perry pointed to one instance where a precinct that supposedly included 192 votes from people who had voted in the June 3 Democratic primary, but according to the certified election results, only 37 people had voted in the Democratic primary on June 3 for that precinct.
So, the records showed that 192 people "might have" voted in the democratic primary. If they were on the list then a simple line through their name and that meant they didn't really vote. They narrowed down the 192 votes to 37 votes. You would think that precinct had turned in results that could be checked. But, if they will do the strike-throughs illegally, then who knows what they can change on other records, and then change totals in other precincts to make the final total come out correct.
The corruption is mind-boggling.
** Connie Cochran, Sen. Cochran’s sister-in-law and the Perry and Hinds County election commissioner, asked local Democrats not to switch the poll books. **
Not a very honest lady, huh?
He’s got to skip all this BS and get revved up for a write-in campaign. There’s no way judges are going to invalidate the election to matter WHAT they find.
But McDaniel just can’t let this stand. WE can’t let this stand. And unlike most write-in efforts, if well organized, this one CAN win!
The Dem candidate will get at least 25%. That means 38% wins it. Based on the votes cast so far, McDaniel can get that. But it’ll take a huge organizational effort, which he needs to start NOW!
Forget the rest of this crap.
Hank
"But McDaniel faces a daunting road ahead. Several national groups who helped fund his challenge to Cochran have signaled the election is over, referring to the result in past tense, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), an icon on the right who stayed neutral during the primary, said, “I look forward to working with Thad.”
The Democrats’ best shot in Mississippi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3173229/posts
“McDaniel supporters are irate that Cochran won a GOP primary by reaching across the aisle. Now some of his backers are ambivalent about whether they’ll come out at all in November — and if they don’t, that could create a rare opening for a Democrat here.”
I hate to say bombshell but this is pretty big news if this democrat election official is correct about the voting corruption.
CGato
bkmk
National supporters leaving McDaniel to his own fate
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/dailyledes/2014/06/26/national-support-leaves-mcdaniel/11402881/
Article states (no quote because of copyright) that all conservative groups who supported McDaniel accepted the results of the primary.
What national groups are saying this election is over? Not by a long shot. If there is one illegal vote; you know there are more. If there has already been 1,000 illegal votes bet your booty there are thousands more. Please don’t stop McDaniel. This is important.