Posted on 07/01/2014 8:15:14 PM PDT by Viennacon
State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s campaign told Breitbart News that the conservative firebrand is already halfway to finding enough allegedly ineligible votes counted to launch a legitimate challenge to the results of last Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff against incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
With more than half of the state’s counties—and many of the state’s African American-majority counties, where many of the ineligible crossover votes are suspected to have occurred—still uncounted, McDaniel’s team told Breitbart News he has at least 3,300 ineligible votes counted. That 3,300 is, according to the McDaniel campaign, just from looking at voters who voted in the June 3 Democratic primary, then crossed over—allegedly illegally—to vote in the June 24 GOP primary runoff.
“Our volunteers on the ground have found over 3,300 irregular votes after examining fewer than half of Mississippi's counties, and that total does not include the Delta counties or even the more than 18,000 absentee ballots, which are sure to include many more irregularities, since that was the prime focus of Cochran's Get Out the Democrat Vote strategy,” McDaniel spokesman Noel Fritsch told Breitbart News.
One such major allegation broke Monday evening via freelance journalist Charles Johnson, who found a pastor—the Rev. Stevie Fielder—who says Cochran’s campaign paid $15 per vote in the black community to vote for Cochran through people like him. Fielder provided Johnson with text messages after Johnson paid him for the story, which ran on Johnson’s new GotNews.com on Monday evening, that allegedly show a Cochran campaign staffer discussing the distribution of cash to Fielder. In the text messages published online, a phone number identified on Fielder's phone as Cochran campaign staffer Saleem Baird appears to discuss putting cash in envelopes for Fielder to pick up.
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The indecency...
Good to focus on these ‘crossover’ votes that are clearly illegal - no arguments about it.
The vote buying is very tough to prove, but nice that that separate investigation is underway.
Saw something about 18-19,000 mailed in ballots from the Delta. That smells fishy to say the least...
Bump
Cochran paid for votes.
No doubt. In any case, even if the vote buying cannot be categorically proven, it will add to any judgement that this election is in question.
But ARE they “clearly illegal”? I know it’s bad form, underhanded, sneaky, despicable, etc. etc. etc., but is it in fact against the law? This is something I have yet to see clearly addressed. Is there a written law saying that you are only allowed to vote in one primary? If there isn’t, I don’t see how we can win. We won’t shame Cochran out of office. If he had any sense of shame he wouldn’t have resorted to this in the first place.
Mitt Romney should have challenge the massive voter fraud. obama in many places received over 100%
Saw something about 18-19,000 mailed in ballots from the Delta. That smells fishy to say the least...
Let’s totally destroy the GOPe over this.
These are questionable votes, they don’t need to be “clearly illegal” to trigger a re-vote or at least a real investigation.
“Mitt Romney should have challenge the massive voter fraud. obama in many places received over 100%”
True, and that is why he is dubbed Romnutz - a nutless nut.
Cochran is not the only one. This will not end well for Cochran, the MS
GOP officials and MS Politicians who supported Cochran.
This scandal has legs. Long legs.
Ronin, where have you been? IT IS THE LAW IN MISSISSIPPI. You CANNOT vote in the runoff for the Republicans if you voted in the Democrat primary.
Yes. Details -> here.
From what I have read from MS FReepers, there is no "allegedly" to it!
“Mitt Romney should have challenge the massive voter fraud. obama in many places received over 100%”
I always thought that very same thing. This fraud has to be stopped at all levels in all elections.
The bag man for the vote buying is a Congressional staffer for Wicker, the other U.S. Senator from MS (a man who owned a strip club in Jackson MS - surely a good qualification for a gig in Congress).
The son-in-law of Wicker was the campaign manager for Cochran.
Isn't McDaniel running out of time to contest? It seems like getting access to the rest of the counted ballots or voting roles is a tall mountain to climb at this point. I hope not.
He actually cannot contest right now. Barbour and friends have no certified the election. Until they do, he’s powerless
Ok. Briefly.
In MS we have open primaries. You can vote in either one regardless of whether you are registered to that particular party or not.
On primary day you MUST CHOOSE which primary you want to vote in. You choose a table, either Republican or Democrat, when you enter your precinct. They check your ID, check to make sure you are registered and you sign a book. They then give you a voting card for the voting machines. Once there, you insert the card you got and ONLY the candidates in THAT primary appear on the screen. You select your choice(s), cast your ballot, eject the card, return it to the appropriate table and go home.
You can NOT then turn around and vote at the OTHER table. You have ALREADY VOTED. You can NOT vote TWICE.
Now, IF one of the parties has a run off, you can of course vote in that as well. You can NOT vote in the primary runoff of the party that you did NOT vote in on the original primary election day.
If you DO so you have in effect voted TWICE. This is ILLEGAL.
In the run off they will take the registration book from the OPPOSITE party’s primary and use THAT to determine if you have already voted in the OTHER party’s primary and are therefore INeligible to vote in the runoff. It was THIS practice that GOP bigs supposedly told the precinct workers in majority dem precincts to avoid. They then had no way to determine who was eligible to vote and who wasn’t, easily.
If you voted in the democrat primary, and there is documented evidence of this when you registered at that particular table, and your name/ID were subsequently used to vote at the OTHER primary runoff you have broken the law.
The RACE baiting the other party’s supporters is another topic altogether. Not illegal in open primary states, but tends to paint the incumbent into a corner they won’t get out of. They aren’t going to get the primary opponent’s supporters votes and the opposing party’s supporters are unlikely to vote outside their party in the general election.
Hope this makes sense.
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