To: Lurking Libertarian
See http://soundpolitics.com/The%20Federal%20Crime%20of%20Election%20Fraud.pdf
The merits of McDaniel’s case were not heard. The ruling was on timing. The merits come under federal concerns since it’s a federal elective office. IOW, fraud is still fraud even if you do not meet an arbitrary date. For example, if an election were proven a year later to be fraudulent, then the timing imposed on challenges — designed to expedite the seating of newly elected officials — would be moot.
29 posted on
10/24/2014 5:14:43 PM PDT by
xzins
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To: xzins
Your link talks about criminal enforcement, not civil. SCOTUS cannot hear an appeal from this decision because McDaniel did not raise any federal-law issues in his appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court, and you cannot raise before SCOTUS an issue you didn't raise in the lower courts.
To: xzins
For example, if an election were proven a year later to be fraudulent, then the timing imposed on challenges designed to expedite the seating of newly elected officials would be moot. Thank you for your correct usage of moot. Too many times do I hear of "mute points". :-)
66 posted on
10/25/2014 7:24:25 AM PDT by
NCjim
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