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Good News: Mississippi Woman Convicted After Trying to Win Votes Via Bribes
The Daily Signal ^ | October 10, 2019 | Jason Snead and Kaitlynn Samalis-Aldrich

Posted on 10/12/2019 9:33:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For the residents of Canton, Mississippi, faith in their elected officials must be at an all-time low.

The city has been facing seemingly endless election scandals in the past couple of years. Five local officials—including an alderman, the fire chief, and the city clerk—have been convicted of a variety of crimes stemming from their efforts to rig a 2017 municipal election, and can never seek public office again.

It’s disturbing that so many elected officials, entrusted to represent the people and improve the community, were instead able to corrupt the electoral system in the name of power and personal gain.

And, as Canton’s residents are discovering, the worst of the bunch might just be Courtney Rainey.

Courtney Rainey—Canton’s director of human and cultural needs, school board member, and (ironically) judicial candidate—was convicted and sentenced Sept. 23 to 15 years in prison on charges of witness intimidation after she tried to stymie the criminal investigation into her earlier efforts at voter fraud.

While many were given the opportunity to enter pretrial diversion programs or step down from their offices, Rainey was not given the same leniency in her sentence—and for good reason.

Rainey’s scheme involved bribing voters with gift cards and cash to win an election. When one of the people Rainey had bribed told authorities about the plot, Rainey attempted to intimidate the voter into changing her initial statement to officials.

Rainey was insistent, too. She showed up at the voter’s job and home, not once, but twice.

Some may argue that a 15-year sentence is overkill for the crime she committed. It’s true that Rainey was not the only Canton public official to try to sway the results of an election, and her sentence is certainly an outlier among the other cases.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: canton; courtneyrainey; electionfraud; intimidation; mississippi
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To: caww; All

Guess which one is the man!


21 posted on 10/13/2019 4:49:02 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: caww

btt


22 posted on 10/13/2019 6:20:15 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: SaveFerris

She left part of her anatomy caught in the justice wringer.


23 posted on 10/13/2019 7:01:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: caww

I live in a very diverse area and have met some lovely black ladies. I do believe, however, that a universal dislike of white and Asian women stems from issues with hating their natural hair. You simply can’t run your fingers through it or enjoy it on your skin like silky Caucasian/Asian hair.


24 posted on 10/13/2019 7:04:55 AM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She has to be a Dem? If she were an R that information would have been not only in the article but in the headline.


25 posted on 10/13/2019 7:14:43 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How is this different when compared to democrats giving a pack of smokes and a bus right to the poll?


26 posted on 10/13/2019 7:17:21 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: for-q-clinton

It’s not, that’s how.


27 posted on 10/13/2019 7:15:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: TruthWillWin

It’s the Daily Signal (Heritage Foundation news site), so I think that either they just left the affiliations out on general principle, or the town’s elections are non-partisan.


28 posted on 10/13/2019 7:16:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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