Chris McDaniel challenges Mississippi Senate runoff

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Source: Politico

Nearly six weeks after he lost the Mississippi Republican Senate runoff, state Sen. Chris McDaniel announced at a press conference Monday that he will formally challenge the results of the vote.

McDaniel is demanding that the state GOP’s 52-member central committee vote next week at a public hearing to declare him the winner — while also retaining the option for a legal challenge in public court if that fails.

Sen. Thad Cochran was certified the winner of the June 24 primary by 7,667 votes, but McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner claims that more than 15,000 ballots were cast by ineligible voters.

Tyner said McDaniel is not asking for another election but to be declared the proper winner of the runoff. “We anticipate that after they review the challenge, they’ll see Chris McDaniel clearly won the Republican vote in the runoff,” said Tyner.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/thad-cochran-chris-mcdaniel-challenge-gop-senate-primary-loss-109699.html

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AP: Cochran foe challenges GOP Senate primary loss

WAPT TV in Jackson: McDaniel challenges runoff election results

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger also reports: Democrat says she ran KKK radio ad, not Barbour: "According to a report at the Washington Examiner, a Democratic activist has claimed responsibility for controversial radio ads linking GOP Senate challenger Chris McDaniel to the Ku Klux Klan." (Article includes audio of the ads.)

[Renew Deal]

1. Can they "declare him the winner?"

Would that be binding?

[Shrike47]

2. Sure, like it's gonna happen that thy 'declare him the winner.'

I think if he was going to file, he would already. Instead, he's trying to use the possibility to fund raise.

[DonViejo]

3. He's looking to get rid of the entire state leadership...

Trent Lott has, more or less, come out in support of "throwing the bums out."

Trent Lott: Mississippi GOP May Need Leadership Change

There may need to be some kind of change in party leadership among Mississippi Republicans as a result of the heated primary fight between state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), according to former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS).

"This has shown the fissures that are there and I do think the party leaders — it may cause the need for some change in the party leadership," Lott told The Hill.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trent-lott-chris-mcdaniel-thad-cochran-tea-party

[marble falls]

8. Trent Lott was one of the bums!

[Harry Monroe]

12. What the GOP needs is a lobotomy.

Failing that, an enema.

[tblue37]

14. for the GOP, I don't see the difference. nt

[Thinkingabout]

4. He is trying to steal an election, who does he think he is, George W Bush?

[iandhr]

5. They are eating each other

[pscot]

6. Good for him.

Never give an inch.

[marble falls]

7. Guffaw!!!

[Ken Burch]

9. McDaniel's pitch is basically "no fair...they let the n_____s vote!".

Hopefully, this will just drag on and on.

[blkmusclmachine]

10. The GOP has gone full Teabag. No turning back now. They'll probably reverse results in favor of McD.

Nothing surprises me anymore, unfortunately.

[Harry Monroe]

11. From watching this "news conference" I gleaned the following:

3,500 cross-over votes
9,500 irregular votes
2,275 improper absentee votes

Irregular and/or improper absentee votes will be "tossed out", will not count and will not benefit either candidate, leaving him with 3,500 so called "cross-over" votes he is claiming that are illegal. I doubt seriously that 3,500 people made a mistake and voted Democrat in the primary and then came back and voted for Thad. Even so, he lost by 7,500 or so, so let's spot him every one of those 3,500 votes. The outcome is the same either way. He still lost the election. The math does not lie.

McDaniel is not looking at any legal challenge, he only wants his voice heard and is willing to drag the Republican party down with him. But as long as he can drag this drama out and keep getting contributions to pay off his campaign debt, grifting and fleecing his idiot followers, what does he care?

So what is McDaniel's "end game"? I don't think he has any coherent one to speak of, I think he's just pissed he lost and is getting back at the Republican establishment any way he can. He also has an extreme "Messiah" complex and seems extremely delusional.

He'd prefer to take the whole rat-infested ship down with him, rather than work to repair the leaks. His huge ego and narcissistic personality will allow for nothing less.

Game's over psycho!

[Harry Monroe]

13. What he is really pissed about is that the right "kind" of Democrats did not "cross over"...

So what if so-called "Democrats" crossed over to vote in the Republican runoff? As long as they did not first vote in the Democratic Primary, there is absolutely nothing illegal about it.

Also, Mississippi's "dirty little secret" is there are really no Democrats or Republican voters in the State of Mississippi. When we register to vote, we are not asked to declare a party affiliation. Our "affiliation" is only "self-proclaimed" and in name only, in the eyes of the law, since there is no official registration as such. With this in mind, how can you determine who is really a Democrat or who is a Republican? McDaniel must know this, and if he is using "cross over voting" by so-called Democrats as the basis of his claim, he is either a piss-poor lawyer, seriously delusional, or is far more gone than I imagine. I'm no lawyer, but I can see the absurdity of this claim. Any half witted sane judge in this state will laugh that right out of his courtroom. McDaniel won't go gracefully and is so deluded to think he was wronged somehow. Everyone else is wrong, but him.

Funny also, that this was the first election with voter ID, a law that was so precious to the Republican Party. My God, there were so many instances of voter fraud, that the Republic could not continue without this law in place!! It is deliciously ironic that there is now a internecine battle within the Republican Party in Mississippi over supposed massive voter fraud in the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate race (imagined in McDaniel's mind, of course, but he wouldn't know reality if it bit him in the ass) voter fraud that the law was supposed to prevent and pushed by same political party pushing for the voter ID law. It is hilarious to see the Republican Party hoisted by their own fuckin' petard!!

[davidpdx]

15. The guy is demented

Let the court hear it slap it down.

[DallasNE]

16. How Could Any Ineligible Voters Cast A Ballot

Seriously. The program that creates the voter roll used for the run-off election would need the following 2 lines of code added.

If party-registered = "d" and last-voted-date = '062214'
move "ineligible" to voter-signature-line.

Substitute the actual date of the primary election for '062214'.

Voters marked "ineligible" are not given a ballot to cast. If this was not done then the voter did not make the mistake by casting a ballot they should not have been given. Rather, it is corruption by the election official responsible for assuring that the voter roll records are accurate for the election cycle.

Could there have been 15,000 people that voted in the run-off with "d" for party affiliation? Sure and no problem with that since they would not have voted in the earlier primary. I would be surprised if more than a handful cast a ballot they were not eligible to receive, such as a Democrat that voted in one County in the primary then moved to another County and reregistered at his new address and the Counties don't share voter information to prevent this from happening. Frankly, I think McDaniel is blowing smoke.

[VA_Jill]

17. Worse than a sore loser

He's living in Fantasyland!