[Cboldt]

There is a difference between "triggering a recount" and reversing the outcome. In this case, the strategy is not counting ballots, but invalidating a certain number of votes. The ballots probably look okay, IOW, there are few ballots invalidated because of the contents of the ballots. The margin is too wide to win by finding a small fraction of ballots where the intention of the voter can't be discerned, but a vote was tallied for one candidate or the other. I don;t know of any challenge based on errors in counting, either.

The threshold for "enough taint" to draw the election into question is roughly the margin of victory, or something pretty close to it. If the margin of victory is 6,700, and the number of tainted ballots is 2,000, the margin of victory is still substantial, and not enough to draw the outcome into question.

[Hostage]

There is precedent posted on another thread by a Freeper that described how a Mayor’s election was overturned not by invalidating votes to reach a margin but by drawing attention to tactics that violated law.

McDaniel’s campaign is alluding to this in this article without revealing their strategy. There were tactics used by the Barbour people that violated MS election law. That’s enough to obtain a ruling to redo the primary election.

The question is whether the Cochran camp can get legitimate crossovers to vote on the next go-round. I think not as I believe it was national GOP in the way of a couple of million that bought the dem activists that brought out the crossovers. And I don’t believe that money will be forthcoming the next go-round.

[bjorn14]

They are checking to see if a Cochran vote was cast by a Dem who voted Dem in the the Primary. Its not like the Hanging Chad (no pun) in 2000.

[longtermmemmory]

there was a Miami local election that was once court ordered redone due to the rampant fraud.