Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2014

US Sen. Cochran Employee Charged With Vote Fraud


Posted July 5, 2014 5:00 AM ET; Last updated July 7, 2014 11:04 PM ET

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[From article]
Cochran and McDaniel first squared off on June 10. McDaniel came out on top but neither won at least 50 per cent of the vote. The runoff two weeks later was supposed to settle the matter.
But complaints of fraud circulated throughout the state even before polls closed. They centered mostly on a seven-figure super PAC set up to benefit him, which paid for advertisements encouraging Democrats in majority-black counties to 'cross over' and vote in the Republican runoff.
The strategy is legal, but Democrats can only participate in another party's primary process if they haven't already voted in their own.
Mississippi law provides for 'automatically a new election,' Tyner said Monday, if the number of 'ineligible voters' exceeds the margin of victory.
That law, an election adviser in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, told MailOnline, wouldn't require McDaniel to find 6,700 fraudulent votes cast for his opponent. Any 6,700 ineligible votes would suffice.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2683933/Mississippi-GOP-primary-repeat-headed-THREE-PEAT-lawyer-says-hell-surprised-doesnt-fraud-trigger-new-election.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Mississippi GOP primary repeat could be headed for THREE-PEAT as lawyer says he'll be 'surprised' if he doesn't find enough fraud to trigger yet ANOTHER election
Tea party Republican Chris McDaniel's campaign lawyer said Monday that he expects to find enough voter fraud to force a third Senate primary contest with aging centrist Thad Cochran
Cochran won a runoff by about 6,700 votes, but McDaniel's attorney says campaign lawyers will almost certainly show at least that many 'ineligible voters' cast ballots
Mississippi law would require a new election – after a primary fight and a runoff – between the two Republicans
McDaniel's campaign is examining absentee ballot applications in every county to identify Democrats who illegally 'crossed over' to participate in the GOP primary after voting in the Democratic primary
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:19 EST, 7 July 2014 | UPDATED: 18:48 EST, 7 July 2014
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http://newsninja2012.com/breaking-news-cochran-campaign-manager-staffer-busted-in-illegal-vote-buying-operation/

BREAKING NEWS! Cochran Campaign Manager, Staffer Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation
WAYNE DUPREE
on June 30, 2014 at 9:36 PM

Thursday, June 26, 2014

NAACP, Black US Rep. Want Payback For Black Votes For MIssissippi Republican


Nothing works as well as buying votes.

[From article]
In an interview with HuffPost Live, Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said that Cochran could thank black voters by supporting efforts to re-establish protections in the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Courtstruck down last year.
"Our advocacy towards his office is to support amending the Voting Rights Act, free of any conditions such as voter ID," Johnson said. "I think this is an opportunity for him to show some reciprocity for African-Americans providing a strong level of support for him."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/african-americans-cochran-mississippi_n_5530851.html

NAACP Wants Thad Cochran To 'Show Some Reciprocity'
The Huffington Post

By Sam Levine
Posted: 06/25/2014 5:30 pm EDT Updated: 06/26/2014 11:59 am EDT


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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381247/bennie-thompson-explains-how-thad-cochran-can-reward-black-voters-joel-gehrke

Bennie Thompson Explains How Thad Cochran Can Reward Black Voters
By Joel Gehrke
June 25, 2014 4:40 PM

Senator Thad Cochran (R., Miss.) needs to reward the black voters who crossed party lines to support him in his runoff against tea party challenger Chris McDaniel by backing some concrete policy initiatives, according the the state’s only member of the Congressional Black Caucus.



Saturday, October 19, 2013

Tourist Fisherman Shot Dead in Mississippi


http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/mississippi-violence-reveals-media-bias/

Mississippi violence reveals media bias
Author charges double standard based on … race
October 19, 2013